| Year |
Barfield's Life |
World/Cultural Events |
| 1929 |
[31]
—Moves to London from
Oxford
—Danger, Ugliness and Waste [pamphlet].
—Financial Inquiry, Lesson of South Wales, The Problem of Financing
Consumption (essays and reviews) |
Trotsky expelled from USSR,
Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, Lewis’ Dodsworth, Remarque’s
All
Quiet on the Western Front, Woolf’s A room of One’s Own,
Wolfe’s
Look
Homeward Angel, Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury published,
first "talkies," Museum of Modern Art opens in NY, US Stock Exchange collapses,
St. Valentine’s Day Massacre
Trotsky |
S. Lewis |
Faulkner |
|
| 1930 |
[32]
—Review of Convention
and Revolt in Poetry, An
Introduction to Anthroposophy, Psychology and Reason, Review of Rudolf
Steiner Enters My Life (essays
and reviews) |
William Howard
Taft, D. H. Lawrence die, Nazis gain 107 seats in German election,
Hart Crane’s The Bridge,
Faulkner’s
As I Lay Dying, published,
Blue
Angel released, development of cyclotron, Pluto discovered, building
of Maginot line begins, Wood’s
American Gothic painted
|
| 1931 |
[33]
—Review of Coleridge
as Philosopher, The Shepherd of New Gifts, The Form of Hamlet. (essays and
reviews)
—Hermann Poppelbaum. Man
and Animal: Their Essential Difference.
Translated from the German (trans.)
—The Village Dance [poem]. |
Jane Addams wins
Nobel Peace Prize, Robert Frost wins Pulitzer Prize for Collected Poems,
Vachel
Lindsay, Thomas Alva Edison, Anna Pavlova die, Frankenstein
in movie
theatres, Capone jailed for income tax evasion
|
| 1932 |
[34]
—Destroyer and Preserver, Equity, The Philosophy of Samuel Taylor
Coleridge, Rudolf Steiner and English Poetry" (essays and reviews)
|
Hitler wins 11
million votes in German election, Roosevelt elected President, John Galsworthy
wins Nobel Prize for Lit., Alexander Calder exhibits mobiles, Shirley Temple’s
first film, Schönberg’s Moses and Aaron premieres, Heisenberg
wins Nobel Prize for physics, Lindbergh baby kidnapped, Roosevelt speaks
of "New Deal," Hart Crane dies
Roosevelt |
Calder |
Heisenberg |
|
| 1933 |
[35]
— (With C. S. Lewis)
Abecedarium Philosophicum [poetry]
—The Relation between the Economics of C. H. Douglas and those of Rudolf
Steiner (essay)
|
Calvin Coolidge,
Ring Lardner die, Hitler becomes German Chancellor, first aircraft carrier
launched, first concentration camps erected, Lorca’s Blood Wedding produced,
Malraux’s La Condition Humaine, Jung’s Modern Man in Search of
a Soul, Stein’s The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas published,
Garbo stars in Queen Christina, positrons discovered, Thomas Hunt
Morgan wins Nobel Prize for study of chromosomes
|
| 1934 |
[36]
—Receives B. Litt and
B.C.L. degrees from Oxford
—Becomes partner in
father’s law firm
— The Inspiration of
the Divine Comedy, Introductory,
Reminiscences, The Threefold Commonwealth and the Press (essays and reviews)
—Sonnet on the Resistance in the German Evangelical Church (poem)
|
Fitzgerald’s
Tender
is the Night, Toynbee’s
A Study of History, Carnap’s
Logical
Syntax of Language, Ezra Pound’s ABC of Reading published,
It
Happened One Night in movie theatres, Gustav Holst dies, F.B.I. kills
John Dillinger
|
| 1935 |
[37]
—The Anthroposophical
Society, The English Spirit, The Present Age, Untitled obituary notice on the
death of Daniel Nicol Dunlop (essays and reviews)
—Come out of Egypt,
May [poetry].
—Law, Association and the Trade Union Movement (pamphlet)
|
Eliot’s Murder
in the Cathedral, Sinclair Lewis’ It Can’t Happen Here published,
39
Steps in movie theatres, Alban Berg dies, Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess
produced,
Curies win the Nobel Prize for chemistry, Rhumba becomes the fashionable
dance
|
| 1936 |
[38] |
Spanish Civil War
begins, Roosevelt re-elected President, Dale Carnegie publishes How
to Win Friends and Influence People, Gone with the Wind wins the Pulitzer
Prize, Rudyard Kipling, A. E. Housman, Luigi Pirandello, Maxim Gorki, Garcia-Lorca,
Miquel de Unamuno, Ottorino Respighi, Ivan Pavlov die, Modern Times,
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town in movie theatres, Boulder Dam completed, BBC
television begins. Hauptman convicted of kidnapping & killing Lindbergh
baby
|
| 1937 |
[39] |
George VI become
king of Great Britain, Spanish Civil War rages on, Dos Passos’ U.S.A.
trilogy,
Sartre’s La Nausée,
Karen Horney’s The Neurotic Personality
in Our Time, Renoir’s
La Grande
Illusion released, George
Gershwin, Edith Wharton die, Orff’s Carmina Burina
performed, dirigible
Hindenburg
explodes, Duke of Windsor marries Wallis Simpson
|
| 1938 |
[40]
—Letters in The New Statesman
and Spectator |
Japanese occupy
China, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’
The Yearling wins Pulitzer Prize,
Johann Huizinga publishes Homo Ludens,
Bela Bartók’s Violin
Concerto performed, Thomas Wolfe, Edmund Husserl, Clarence Darrow die
Huizinga |
Bela Bartók |
Husserl |
|
| 1939 |
[41] |
Joyce publishes
Finnegans
Wake, William Butler Yeats, Ford Maddox Ford die, DDT synthesized,
first helicopter constructed,
Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz in
movie theatres
|
| 1940 |
[42]
Panic and its Opposite, Some Reflections arising out of the War (essays)
|
British forces
evacuated from Dunkirk, London blitz begins, Trotsky assassinated, Roosevelt
elected to third term as President, Adler’s How to Read a Book, Hemingway’s
For
Whom the Bell Tolls, Richard Wright’s Native Son published,
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nathanael West, Paul Klee die, Grapes of Wrath,
Fantasia in movie theatres
|
| 1941 |
[43] |
Japanese attack
Pearl Harbor, US enters World War II, Louis Brandeis, Sherwood Anderson,
James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Henri Bergson, Benjamin Whorf, Lou Gehrig
die, Citizen Kane in movie theatres, Manhattan Project begins, Joe
DiMaggio hits safely in 56 consecutive games
|
| 1942 |
[44] |
World War II continues,
Eliot’s Four Quartets, Camus’ L’Étranger published,
Thorton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth produced, George M. Cohan,
John Barrymore die, To Be or Not to Be in movie theatres,
first electronic computer developed in the US, first jet airplane tested
Barrymore |
 |
|
|
| 1943 |
[45] |
World War II continues,
Martha Graham dances
Deaths and Entrances, first one-man show by
Jackson Pollock, Casablanca
wins Oscar for best picture, Chaim Soutine,
George Washington Carver, Nikola Tesla, Rachmaninoff die, Penicillin proves
successful
|
| 1944 |
[46]
—Romanticism Comes of Age (book)
|
World War II continues,
D-Day invasion, Dumbarton Oaks Conference, Roosevelt elected President
for fourth term, Williams’
The Glass Menageries, Sartre’s
No
Exit produced, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wassily Kandindsky,
Piet Mondrian, Edvard Munch die, Copeland’s Appalachian Spring wins
Pulitzer Prize
Williams |
Kandinsky |
Copeland |
|
| 1945 |
[47]
—Son Jeffrey adopted
—The Psalms of David,Parts I and Part II(essays)
|
World War II ends,
Yalta Conference, Pres. Roosevelt dies, Harry S. Truman becomes President,
Hitler commits suicide, Mussolini killed, US drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima
and Nagasaki, Nuremberg trials begin, Gen. George S. Patton, Paul Valery,
Ernst Cassirer, Käthe Kollwitz, Anton von Webern, Bella Bartok die,
Hesse’s Glass-Bead Game
published,
The Lost Weekend in movie
theatres
|
| 1946 |
[48]
—Barfield at Birchfield (lectures)
|
First United Nations
General Assembly, Juan Peron becomes President of Argentina, Churchill
gives his "Iron Curtain" speech, Nuremberg trials completed, Warren’s All
the King’s Men wins Pulitzer, Gertrude Stein, W. C. Fields, John Maynard
Keynes, Alfred Stieglitz die, Hermann Hesse wins Nobel Prize for Lit.,
The
Best Years of Our Lives in movie theatres
|
| 1947 |
[49]
—Rudolf
Steiner. Behind the Scenes of External Happenings (trans.)
—Poetic Diction and Legal Fiction (essay)
|
Plans made for
partition of Palestine and formation of Israel, India and Pakistan become
independent nations, Taft-Hartley act published, Willa Cather, Alfred North
Whitehead, Max Planck, Henry Ford, Al Capone die, flying saucer reports
rampant in US, Camus’ The Plague, Mann’s Doctor Faustus published,
Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire wins Pulitzer Prize, André
Gide wins Nobel Prize for Lit.
|
| 1948 |
[50]
—Baptised
—Orpheus performed, Little Theatre, 3/18 and at Sheffield
|
Gandhi assassinated, Marshall Plan
enacted, Harry S. Truman elected President, Mailer’s The
Naked and the Dead published, T. S. Eliot wins Nobel Prize for Lit.,
The
Bicycle Thief released, D. W. Griffith, Ruth Benedict, Babe Ruth die, Joe
Lewis retires, long-playing record patented, Mount Palomar telescope dedicated
|
| 1949 |
[51]
—Goethe and Evolution”
broadcast on the BBC
—Goethe and Evolution, Goethe and the Twentieth Century, The Kingdom in
Space-Time (essays and reviews)
|
People’s Republic of China formed—Mao
Tse-Tung first Premier, NATO formed, Orwell’s 1984published, Miller’s
The Death of a Salesman produced (wins Pulitzer Prize), James Ensor,
Richard Strauss die, USSR tests first atomic bomb, Apartheid established in
South Africa
|
| 1950 |
[52]
—Greek Thought in
English Words, Review of Brief e von
Rudolf Steiner (essays and
reviews)
—This Ever Diverse Pair (book)
—The Silent Piano, Sapphics, Gender, Merman (poetry)
|
Chiang Kai-Shek
becomes President of Nationalist China, Senator Joseph McCarthy denounces
communists in the State Department, Korean War begins, George Bernard Shaw,
Edgar Rice Burroughs, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Kurt Weill die, first appearance
of "cool jazz," plutonium developed, Einstein’s General Field Theory,
Bertrand Russell wins Nobel Prize for Lit.
|
| 1951 |
[53]
—Form in Art and in
Society (essay)
—History of English Poetry in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century
(poetry)
|
22nd Amendment
passed, Frost’s Complete Poems, Salinger’s The Catcher in the
Rye published, Wouk’s The Caine Mutiny wins Pulitzer Prize,
Sinclair Lewis, Harold Ross, Leadbelly, William Randolph Hearst die, The
African Queen, Streetcar Named Desire
in movie theatres
|
| 1952 |
[54]
—Preface to the
Second Edition of Poetic Diction (essay)
—The Milkmaid and the Unicorn (poetry)
|
Eisenhower elected
President, Albert Schweitzer wins Nobel Peace Prize, Hemingway’s The
Old Man and the Sea, Ralph Ellison’s The Invisible Man published,
Marianne Moore’s Collected Poems wins Pulitzer Prizes, Peale’s The
Power of Positive Thinking
published, Beckett’s Waiting for Godot
produced,
High
Noon
in movie theatres, US tests hydrogen bomb, George Santayana, Benedetto
Croce die
|
| 1953 |
[55]
—Letter to the Editor
|
Tito becomes President
of Yugoslavia, Stalin, Dylan Thomas, Raoul Dufy die, USSR explodes hydrogen
bomb, Mount Everest first climbed, Dag Hammarskjöld becomes Secretary-General
of United Nations, Queen Elizabeth II crowned, Arthur Miller’s The Crucible
produced,
Bellow’s The Adventures of Augie March, MacLeish’s
Collected
Poems, de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex, the Kinsey Report published,
Rosenbergs executed, Korean armistice signed
Thomas |
Hammarskjöld |
Archibald MacLeish |
|
| 1954 |
[56]
—The Art of Eurhythmy, The Light of the World, Review of Briefe von
Rudolf Steiner (essays and reviews)
|
Nasser seizes power
in Egypt; Brown vs. Board of Education, Colette, Matisse, Charles Ives
die, Senator McCarthy censured, Robert Oppenheimer dismissed from government
service, first nuclear-powered submarine, Hemingway wins Nobel Prize for
Lit., Huxley’s The Doors of Perception, Tolkien’s The Lord of
the Rings published, Williams’
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Roetke’s
The
Waking win Pulitzer Prizes for drama and poetry
|
| 1955 |
[57]
—The Time-Philosophy of Rudolf Steiner (essay)
|
Churchill resigns,
A.F.L. and C.I.O. merge, Montgomery bus boycott, Paul Claudel, James Agee,
Ortega y Gasset, Maurice Utrillo, Charlie Parker, Albert Einstein die,
Nabokov’s Lolita, Sloan Wilson’s The Man in the Gray Flannel
Suit, Rudolf Flesch’s Why Johnny Can’t Read published, first
use of atomic power
|
| 1956 |
[58]
—Israel and the Michael Impulse, Walter de la Mare (essays)
|
Eisenhower re-elected
President of the USA, Walter de la Mare, Max Beerbohm, Emil Nolde, H. L.
Mencken, Bertolt Brecht die, Pakistan born as Islamic Repubic; Nassar seizes
Suez Canal; Wilson’s
The Outsider, Whyte’s The Organization Man
published;
Elvis Presley becomes popular, Polio vaccine developed by Albert Sabin,
Bergman’s
The Seventh Seal released.
|
| 1957 |
[59]
—The Apocalypse of
St. John, Insight about
Ultimate Things, Introduction to Eurhythmy, Positivism and Anthroposophy,
Thomas Aquinas, William Blake, 1757-1827 (essays and reviews)
—Saving the Appearances: A Study in Idolatry (book)
|
Sputnik launches,
Desegregation crisis in Little Rock, AR, Albert Camus wins Nobel Prize
for Literature; Dorothy Sayers, Constantin Brancusi, Senator Joe McCarthy,
Erich von Stroheim, Humphrey Bogart, Admiral Richard Byrd, Jean Sibelius
die, Bernstein’s West Side Story, Beckett’s Endgame open
|
| 1958 |
[60]
—See Science
Heading Straight for Bankruptcy, Self-Deceptions or Stages to Reality?,
Towards a Science of Man (essays)
—The
Son of God and the Son of Man (lecture)
|
European Common Market born,
De Gaulle becomes President of France; Alaska becomes a state; Boris Pasternak
wins Nobel Prize for Literature, Galbraith’s The Affluent Society published,
Guggenheim Museum opens, Ralph Vaughan Williams, J. B. Watson die, first
US satellite launched, NASA born, first parking meters in London
DeGaulle |
Pasternak |
Williams |
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