E. W. F. Tomlin
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Eric Walter Frederick Tomlin CBE (1913-1988) was a British essayist, known mostly for many books and articles on philosophical topics.
He knew both T. S. Eliot and Wyndham Lewis, and wrote on them.
He was head of the British Council in Japan from 1961 to 1967.
He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1959 and raised to Commander (CBE) in 1965.
[edit] Works
- Turkey, the Modern Miracle (1940)
- Life in Modern Turkey (1946)
- The Approach to Metaphysics (1947)
- The Oriental philosophers, an introduction (1950)
- The Western Philosophers: an Introduction (1950)
- R. G. Collingwood (1953)
- Simone Weil (1954)
- Living and Knowing (1955)
- Wyndham Lewis (1955)
- T. S. Eliot : a tribute from Japan (1966) editor with Masao Hirai
- Tokyo essays (1967)
- Charles Dickens, 1812-1870; a Centennial Volume (1969) editor
- Wyndham Lewis - An Anthology of His Prose (1969) editor
- Japan (1973)
- The Last country: My Years in Japan (1974)
- Arnold Toynbee, a Selection From His Works (1978) editor
- The world of Saint Boniface (1981)
- The church of St.Morwenna and St. John the Baptist : a guide and history (1982)
- In search of Saint Piran : an account of his monastic foundation at Perranzabuloe, Cornwall (1982)
- The tall trees of Marsland : reflections on life and time
- Philosophers of East and West: The Quest for the Meaning of Existence in Eastern and Western Thought
- Psyche, Culture and the New Science: the Role of PN (1985) on Psychic Nutrition (1985)
- T. S. Eliot: A Friendship (1988)
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