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Author: John Cowper Powys
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Author: John Cowper Powys
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 142
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Author: John Cowper Powys
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Author: John Cowper Powys
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571309461
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 644
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'I have tried to write my life as if I were confessing to a priest, a philosopher, and a wise old woman. I have tried to write as if I were going to be executed when it was finished. I have tried to write it as if I were both God and Devil.' One is tempted to say only John Cowper Powys could have written that, and, beyond doubt, only John Cowper Powys could have written the idiosyncratic and spellbinding work we have here. Yes, he was influenced by Yeats and Rousseau, especially the latter's Confessions, but there is no other work quite like this. It seems almost too pedestrian to say it covers the first sixty years of his life (he lived for another thirty years) and to say anything about them, as J. B. Priestley memorably put it, 'would be like turning on a tap before introducing people to Niagara Falls.' J. B. Priestley also said 'It is a book which can be read, with pleasure and profit, over and over again. It is in fact one of the greatest autobiographies in the English language. Even if Powys had never written any novels, this one book alone would have proved him to be a writer of genius.'
Author: John Cowper Powys
Publisher: Good Press
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 77
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'One Hundred Best Books' is an essay where the author lays out his opinions on what he thinks is the best 100 books of all-time were, at the time when he was writing, which was in 1916. Some of the books that he included were downright controversial at the time, but are now widely celebrated, such as 'Alice in Wonderland' and 'Leaves of Grass'. Others, however, are books that were great then, and continue to be considered so now, such as 'The Odyssey', 'Faust', 'The Divine Comedy', and the poems of Walt Whitman.
Author: John Cowper Powys
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
ISBN: 9781585679959
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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In a Roman fort in Wales at the turn of the sixth century, Porius, the son of a reigning prince, is aided by Merlin the magician, Nineue, and Medrawd in a battle for cultural survival.
Author: John Cowper Powys
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Category : Man-woman relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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Decay of an English country family.
Author: John Cowper Powys
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ISBN: 9780140021820
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 633
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Often described as one of the great apocalyptic novels of our time, WOLF SOLENT is the story of a young man returning from London to work near to the school at which his father had been history master. Complex, romantic and humorous, it is a classicwork combining a close understanding of man's everyday experience with a delicate awareness of the spiritual.
Author: John Cowper Powys
Publisher: New York, Simon
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Category : Books and reading
Languages : en
Pages : 596
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A collection of literary essays.
Author: Llewelyn Powys
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1789123674
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Earth Memories is a wonderful collection of essays by the English writer Llewelyn Powys. These ‘love letters to the English Countryside’ manifest throughout great depth of nature lore and observation hand in hand with the author’s own personal pagan creed and commentary on places, people and things. This edition, which was first published in 1938, includes an Introduction by the American literary critic and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Van Wyck Brooks. “Wherever Llewelyn Powys has lived, his mind has always turned towards England, the homeland that haunts him like a passion. Under the stars in the African jungle, poring over Robert Burton, whose rhythms have left long traces in his style—a style that is often archaic and always rare in texture—he dreamed of English gardens. In New York, in the clattering streets, he would see the cuckoo perched singing on the top of Sandsfoot Castle. He can always regain serenity, he says in one of his essays, by thinking of the playground of his childhood, the pear trees of Montacute Vicarage. High as his fever may be, the memory of this enchanted ground quiets his pulse in a moment; and his pictures of England suggest the eye of the convalescent, as if the world had been reborn for him. They are full of an all but miraculous freshness.”—Van Wyck Brooks, Introduction
Author: Frances Gregg
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773573968
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 205
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Who is Frances Gregg? In her youth she was a poet in her own right, a friend of Ezra Pound, and an intimate of Hilda Doolittle and John Cowper Powys. In our literary history, particularly the history of Modernism, she has been a mysterious presence. Now, with this publication for the first time of The Mystic Leeway, we have Gregg's testament to her lovers, her life, her deeply troubled times, and to Art. Written over the three years before her tragic death in the bombing of Plymouth in 1941, this memoir marks the course of Gregg's journey, both spiritual and physical, through a passionate life. With painful and amusing honesty, Gregg records her experience of other icons of Modernism, including William Butler Yeats, May Sinclair, Alice Meynell, George Moore, Jacob Epstein, Walter Rummel, and Louis Wilkinson.
