John Cowper Powys (1872–1963)
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Sull'Autore
British novelist, poet and philosopher John Cowper Powys was born in Shirley, Derbyshire on October 8, 1872. He was a lecturer for more than three decades, traveling across America but eventually returned to Great Britain. He has written regional romances, historical fiction and critical studies mostra altro including A Glastonbury Romance and Wolf Solent. He died on June 17, 1963. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Serie
Opere di John Cowper Powys
Jobber Skald 5 copie
Studiekamraten 1 copia
Letters to Clifford Tolchard 1 copia
Topsy-Turvy 1 copia
Cataclysm 1 copia
Abertackle 1 copia
Opere correlate
Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated) (2011) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 77 copie
From Isles of Dream: Visionary Stories and Poems of the Celtic Renaissance (1993) — Collaboratore — 40 copie
The Tavern Lamps Are Burning: Literary Journeys through Six Regions and Four Centuries of New York State (1964) — Collaboratore — 19 copie
Wheels On Gravel — Prefazione — 3 copie
Theodore : Essays on T.F. Powys — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Peninsula: An Anthology of Verse from the West Country — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1872-10-08
- Data di morte
- 1963-06-17
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Nazione (per mappa)
- England, UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Shirley, Derbyshire, England, UK
- Luogo di morte
- Blaenau Ffestiniogg, Merioneth, Wales
- Luogo di residenza
- Shirley, Derbyshire, England, UK
USA
Blaenau Ffestiniogg, Merioneth, Wales - Istruzione
- University of Cambridge (BA|1894|Corpus Christi)
- Attività lavorative
- teacher
essayist
poet
critic
novelist - Relazioni
- Powys, Llewelyn (brother)
Gregory, Alyse (sister-in-law)
Powys, T. F. (brother)
Powys, Littleton (brother)
Myers, Elizabeth (sister-in-law)
Cowper, William (ancestor) (mostra tutto 9)
Powys, Margaret (wife)
Powys, Littleton Alfred (son)
Playter, Phyllis (partner)
Utenti
Discussioni
PORIUS: A 3rd edition. in Le Salon Littéraire du Peuple pour le Peuple (Gennaio 2012)
Notes for a potential reading of John Cowper Powys's PORIUS in 2011. in Le Salon Littéraire du Peuple pour le Peuple (Giugno 2011)
Group read: A Glastonbury Romance in 75 Books Challenge for 2011 (Marzo 2011)
Recensioni
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A Novel Cure (1)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 104
- Opere correlate
- 7
- Utenti
- 3,314
- Popolarità
- #7,721
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 64
- ISBN
- 308
- Lingue
- 7
- Preferito da
- 43
I should have known, really. Many years ago, a friend gave me A Glastonbury Romance solely because it was the only book he had found that was thicker than The Lord of the Rings. The prose style was so turgid, so convoluted, so pretentious, that I caused much hilarity among my schoolfellows by reading out a sentence or two from the first chapter. This book is no better. Powys is verbose; relenstlessly verbose; oppressively verbose. He never uses one word where six would do; he stacks ideas and piles up subordinate clauses until the reader is desperately grasping, or gasping, for the end of the sentence. He ladles in classical reference in such a way that you feel he is giving you information about his mythological sources, but you seem to end up none the wiser, and battered by the onslaught of names and attributes. After several pages of philosophizing and rumination on the part of a range of mysteriously sentient characters such as a fly, a moth, a large wooden club, and a pillar of Odyseuss's palace, the author has both exhibited and then obscured whatever deep and cosmic idea it was that motivated his writing.
I just lost patience with it. Life is really too short to spend time on such an annoying book!
MB 31-iii-2024… (altro)