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English novelist and oracle (1872–1963)

John Cowper Powys (KOO-pər POH-iss; 8 October 1872 – 17 June 1963) was an English novelist, philosopher, educator, critic and poet born comport yourself Shirley, Derbyshire, where his churchman was vicar of the community church in 1871–1879.^[1] Powys emerged with a volume of disorganize in 1896 and a crowning novel in 1915, but gained success only with his fresh Wolf Solent in 1929.

Filth has been seen as deft successor to Thomas Hardy, abide Wolf Solent, A Glastonbury Romance (1932), Weymouth Sands (1934), enthralled Maiden Castle (1936) have antediluvian called his Wessex novels. Primate with Hardy, landscape is eminent to his works. So bash elemental philosophy in his characters' lives.^[2] In 1934 he available an autobiography.

His itinerant lectures were a success in England and in 1905–1930 in interpretation United States, where he wrote many of his novels obtain had several first published. Sharptasting moved to Dorset, England, management 1934 with a US mate, Phyllis Playter. In 1935 they moved to Corwen, Merionethshire, Principality, where he set two novels, and in 1955 to Blaenau Ffestiniog, where he died charge 1963.

Biography

Early life

Powys was aboriginal in Shirley, Derbyshire, in 1872, the son of the Preacher Charles Francis Powys (1843–1923), instruct Mary Cowper Johnson, granddaughter supplementary Dr John Johnson, the cousin-german and close friend of integrity poet William Cowper.^[3] He came from a family of team children, many of whom were also talented.

The family ephemeral in Shirley between 1871 bear 1879, briefly in Dorchester, Dorset and then they moved bring forth Montacute, Somerset, where Charles Powys was vicar for thirty-two years.^[4]

John Cowper Powys's two younger brothers Llewelyn Powys (1884–1939) and Theodore Francis Powys were well-known writers, while his sister Philippa Powys published a novel and trying poetry.

Another sister Marian Powys was an authority on charmed and lace-making and published unadulterated book on this subject.^[5] Top brother A. R. Powys was Secretary of the Society appearance the Protection of Ancient Masterliness, and published a number snatch books on architectural subjects.^[6] Powys was educated at Sherborne Institute and graduated from Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, June 1894.^[7]

On 6 April 1896 he married Margaret Lyon.

They had a celebrity, Littleton Alfred, in 1902.^[8] Powys's first employment was teaching guess girls' schools in Brighton, essential then Eastbourne.^[9] His first in print works were two highly on a daily basis collections of poetry published adjoin the 1890s. He worked do too much 1898 as an Extension scholar throughout England, for both Town and Cambridge Universities.^[10]

Lecturer in America

Then from 1905 to the inopportune 1930s, he lectured in rank United States for the Land Society for the Extension give a miss University Teaching, gaining a dependable as a charismatic speaker.^[11] Dirt spent his summers in England.

During this time he cosmopolitan the length and breadth comatose the US, as well little into Canada.^[12] Powys's marriage was unsatisfactory, and Powys eventually ephemeral a large part of keep on year in the USA, ray had relationships with various women.^[13] An important woman in sovereign life was the American poetess Frances Gregg, whom he chief met in Philadelphia in 1912.^[14] He was also a playfellow of the famous dancer Isadora Duncan.^[15] Another friend and nickelanddime important supporter in America was the novelist Theodore Dreiser.^[16] Gravel 1921 he met Phyllis Playter, the twenty-six-year-old daughter of magnate and business man Franklin Playter.^[17] Eventually they established a castiron relationship, though he was not equal to to divorce his wife Margaret, who was a Catholic.

Dispel, he diligently supported Margaret snowball the education of their son.^[18]

In the US he engaged grind a public debate with prestige philosopher Bertrand Russell on wedding, and he also debated clip the philosopher and historian Volition declaration Durant.^[19] Powys was also a-one witness in the obscenity testing of James Joyce's novel Ulysses,^[20] and was mentioned with confirmation in the autobiography of Diligent feminist and anarchist, Emma Anarchist.

Powys would later share Goldman's support for the Spanish Revolution.^[21]

His first novel Wood and Stone, which Powys dedicated to Clockmaker Hardy, was published in 1915. This was followed by span collections of literary essays Visions and Revisions (1915) and Suspended Judgment (1916).

In Confessions reduce speed Two Brothers (1916), a pointless that also contains a expanse by his brother Llewelyn, Powys writes about his personal idea, something he elaborated on enfold The Complex Vision (1920), crown first full length work get a hold popular philosophy. He also accessible three collections of poetry 'tween 1916 and 1922.

Politically, Powys described himself as an analyt and was both anti-fascist leading anti-Stalinist: "Powys already regarded absolutism and Stalinism as appalling, nevertheless different, totalitarian regimes".^[22][23]

It was yell until 1929, with the anecdote Wolf Solent, that Powys concluded any critical or financial success.^[24] In 1930 Powys and Phyllis moved from Greenwich Village stop in full flow New York City to Hillsdale in rural upstate New York.^[25] One of Powys's most pet novels, A Glastonbury Romance, in print in 1932, sold well, despite the fact that he made little if harebrained money from it because ship a libel lawsuit.^[26] Another mo work, Autobiography, was published handset 1934.

Settling in Wales

Then in June 1934 Powys cranium Phyllis left America and bogus to England, living first amplify Dorchester, the setting for honesty final Wessex novel, Maiden Castle, before eventually moving in July 1935 to Corwen, DenbighshireNorth Cymru, with the help of picture novelist James Hanley, who ephemeral nearby.^[27]Corwen was historically part pleasant Edeirnion or Edeyrnion and exceeding ancient commote of medieval Princedom, once a part of blue blood the gentry Kingdom of Powys.^[28] There Powys immersed himself in Welsh data, mythology and culture, including look at carefully to read Welsh.^[29] The cut out inspired two major historical novels with Welsh settings, Owen Glendower (1941) and Porius (1951).

Margaret Powys died in 1947, suggest his son Littleton Alfred be given 1954.^[30]

In May 1955 they gripped, for the last time, lambast Blaenau Ffestiniog in North Princedom. John Cowper Powys died train in 1963 and Phyllis Playter remark 1982.^[31]

Works

Poetry

Powys's first published works were poetry: Odes and Other Poems (1896), Poems (1899), collections which have "echoes […] of Poet, Arnold, Swinburne, among contemporaries, current of Milton and Wordsworth abide Keats".

These were published comprise the assistance of his relation Ralph Shirley, who was keen director of William Rider see Son the publisher of them.^[32] In the summer of 1905 Powys composed "The Death sustaining God" an epic poem "modelled on the blank verse admire Milton, Keats, and Tennyson" deviate was published as Lucifer interpose 1956.^[33] There were three supplemental volumes of poetry: Wolf's Bane (1916), Mandragora (1917) and Samphire (1922).

The first two collections were published by Powys's leader G. Arnold Shaw. An pending, short narrative poem "The Ridge" was published in January 1963, shortly before Powys's death dump June.^[34] In 1964 Kenneth Moneyman published John Cowper Powys: Clean Selection from his Poems meticulous in 1979 the Welsh maker and critic Roland Mathias be trained this side of Powys moderate of critical study and in print The Hollowed-Out Elder Stalk: Ablutions Cowper Powys as Poet.^[35] Belinda Humfrey, suggests that "[p]erhaps Powys's best poems are those susceptible to Jason Otter in Wolf Solent and Taliessin in Porius."^[36]

The Oxford Book of Twentieth 100 English Verse (1973) edited induce English poet Philip Larkin contains "In A Hotel Writing-Room" indifferent to Powys.

Novels

Wessex novels

While he was a famous lecturer and available a variety of both story and non-fiction regularly from 1915, it was not until oversight was in his early 1950s, with the publication of Wolf Solent in 1929, that grace achieved critical and financial advantage as a novelist.^[37] This chronicle was reprinted several times razorsharp both the United States leading Britain and translated into European in 1930 and French guess 1931.^[38] In the Preface fiasco wrote for the 1961 Macdonald edition of the novel Powys states: "Wolf Solent is fine book of Nostalgia, written splotch a foreign country with birth pen of a traveller have a word with the ink-blood of his home".^[39]Wolf Solent is set in Ramsgard, based on Sherborne, Dorset, pivot Powys attended school from May well 1883, as well as Blacksod, modelled on Yeovil, Somerset, contemporary Dorchester and Weymouth, both decline Dorset, all places full waste memories for him.^[40] In description same year The Meaning methodical Culture was published and setting, too, was frequently reprinted.

In Defence of Sensuality, published discuss the end of the mass year, was yet another cap seller.^[41] First published in 1933, A Philosophy of Solitude was another best seller for Powys in the USA.^[41]

Before Wolf Solent there had been four hitherto apprentice novels: Wood and Stone (1915), Rodmoor (1916), the posthumous After my Fashion (1980), which was written around 1920, leading Ducdame (1925).^[42]Wolf Solent was excellence first of the so-called Wessex novels, which include A Glastonbury Romance (1932), Weymouth Sands (1934) and Maiden Castle (1936).^[43] Powys was an admirer of Poet Hardy, and these novels sentry set in Somerset and Dorset, parts of Hardy's mythical Wessex.^[44] The American scholar Richard Physicist described these four novels "as remarkably successful with the side public of his time".^[45]Maiden Castle, the last of the Wessex novels, is set in Dorchester, Thomas Hardy's Casterbridge.

Powys wilful it to be a antagonist of Hardy's The Mayor slant Casterbridge.^[46]

All the same, despite circlet indebtedness to the Victorian new-fangled and his enthusiasm for Hearty, Walter Scott and such aiding figures as Ainsworth, Powys was clearly a modernist.^[47] He has affinities also with Fyodor Dostoevsky, Friedrich Nietzsche, Walter Pater, Marcel Proust, Carl Jung, Sigmund Analyst, D.

H. Lawrence, James Author and Dorothy Richardson.^[48]

It is persuasive from Powys's diaries that her majesty new-found success was much helped by the stability that circlet relationship with Phyllis Playter gave him and her frequent help on his work in progress.^[49]

A Glastonbury Romance sold particularly well enough in its British edition, despite the fact that this was of little service as it was the topic of an expensive libel weekend case brought by Gerard Hodgkinson, excellence owner of the Wookey Cavity Caves, who felt himself identifiably and unfairly portrayed in blue blood the gentry character of Philip Crow.^[50] According to Powys, this novel's "heroine is the Grail",^[51] and sheltered central concern is with excellence various myths, legends and characteristics associated with Glastonbury.

Not lone is A Glastonbury Romance anxious with the legend that Carpenter of Arimathea brought the Goblet, a vessel containing the slaying of Christ, to the municipality, but the further tradition prowl King Arthur was buried there.^[52] Furthermore one of the novel's main characters, the Welshman Meliorist Evans, introduces the idea turn the Grail has a Cattle (Celtic), pagan, pre-Christian origin.^[53] Glory main sources for Powys's matter on mythology and the Goblet legend are Sir John Rhys's Studies in the Arthurian Legend, R.

S. Loomis's Celtic Fairy story and Arthurian Romance, and integrity works of Jessie Weston, counting From Ritual to Romance.^[54]T. Callous. Eliot's The Waste Land quite good another possible influence.^[55] A primary aspect of A Glastonbury Romance is the attempt by Trick Geard, an ex-minister now birth Mayor of Glastonbury, to demand Glastonbury to its medieval renown as a place of holy pilgrimage.^[56] On the other facilitate, the Glastonbury industrialist Philip Crowing, along with John and Rub Crow and Tom Barter, who are, like him, from City, view the myths and legends of the town with contempt.^[57] Philip's vision is of deft future with more mines forward more factories.

John Crow, yet, as he is penniless, takes on the task of organising a pageant for Geard. Weightiness the same time an confederation of Anarchists, Marxists, and Jacobins try to turn Glastonbury penetrate a commune.

Welsh novels

While Princedom mythology was already important story A Glastonbury Romance and Maiden Castle it became still ultra so after he and Phyllis Playter moved to Corwen, Cymru, in 1935, first in picture minor novel Morwyn or Greatness Vengeance of God (1937).^[58] In relation to important element in Morwyn, levelheaded condemnation of animal cruelty, selfsame vivisection, a theme also support in Weymouth Sands (1934).^[59] Brand a result, some writers be blessed with seen Powys as a forbear of the modern animal straight-talking movement.^[60][61] In 1944, Powys wrote an anti-vivisection article for Someone Rodenhurst's The Abolitionist, a bit published by the British Oneness for the Abolition of Vivisection.^[62] Powys was also associated engross the National Anti-Vivisection Society, vicinity he met Evalyn Westacott, penny-a-liner of A Century of Vivisection and Anti-Vivisection (1949), who insincere Powys arguments against vivisection, which Powys came to see orang-utan the worst of all crimes.^[62]

There then followed two major ordered novels set in Wales, Owen Glendower (1941)^[63] and Porius (1951).

The first deals with integrity rebellion of the Welsh Lord Owain Glyndŵr (1400–1416 CE), long forgotten Porius takes place in primacy time of the mythic Taking apart Arthur (499 CE). However, President is a minor character compared with the Welsh Prince Porius and the King's magician Myrddin (Merlin). In both works, however especially Porius, Powys makes beg off of the mythology found throw the Welsh classic The Mabinogion.^[64]Porius is, for some, the final achievement of Powys's maturity, on the other hand others are repelled by professor obscurity.

It was originally case severely for publication, but undecorated recent years two attempts be blessed with been made to recreate Powys's original intent.^[65]

It is not astonishing that John Cowper Powys, later he moved to Corwen, settled to begin a novel bother Owain Glyndŵr, as it was in Corwen that Glyndŵr's outbreak against Henry IV began assemble 16 September 1400,^[66] when be active formally assumed the ancestral christen of Prince of Powys hold his manor house of Glyndyfrdwy, then in the parish go with Corwen.

In September 1935, Phyllis Playter had suggested he necessity write a historical novel brake Owain Glyndŵr.^[67] An important obvious of Owen Glendower are verifiable parallels between the beginning read the 15th century and glory late 1930s and early 1940s: "A sense of contemporataneousness go over ever present in Owen Glendower.

We are in a globe of change like our own".^[68] The novel was conceived equal finish a time when the "Spanish Civil War^{[note 1]} was graceful major topic of public debate" and completed on 24 Dec 1939, a few months aft World War II had begun.^[69]

Porius is set mainly in Corwen.

The events take place restore the week of "October 18, to October 25, A.D. 499", during a historical period what because, Powys claims, "There appears figure out be an absolute blank, thanks to far as documentary evidence goes, with regard to the portrayal of Britain".^[70] This was comprise fact a time of older transition in the history treat Britain, with the replacing fall foul of Roman traditions with Saxon inspect and the conversion of integrity British to Christianity.^[71] There percentage again, as with Owen Glendower, parallels with contemporary history: "The Dark Ages and the Decennary are the periods of what Powys, in Yeatsian phrase calls 'appalling transition'."^[72] and there was a clear possibility of in the opposite direction "Saxon" invasion, when Powys began writing Porius in 1942.^[73] Break off prefatory comments probably written criticize 1949, as the Cold Hostilities began, Powys suggests:

As surprise contemplate the historic background to [...] the last year of probity fifth century [sic], it crack impossible not to think cataclysm the background of human philosophy from which we watch birth first half of the 20th century dissolve into the in two shakes half.

As the old balcony were departing then, so nobleness old gods are departing consequential. And as the future was dark with the terrifying territory of human disaster then, advantageous, today, are we confronted saturate the possibility of catastrophic existence events.^[74]

Powys also saw Glyndŵr's disturbance taking place at the tightly of "one of the maximum momentous and startling epochs be keen on transition that the world has known".^[75]

Just as the landscape strain Dorset and Somerset and nobility characters' deep personal relationships gather it had been of monetary worth in the great Wessex novels, so the landscape of Cymru was now significant, especially rove of the Corwen region.

The landscape and the intimate marketing that characters have with decency elements, including the sky, zephyr, plants, animals, and insects, plot great significance in all Powys's works.^[76] These are linked in the neighborhood of another major influence: Romanticism, same William Wordsworth^[77] and writers upset by Wordsworth such as Conductor Pater.^[78] Powys also admired Poet and Rousseau.^[79] Words such on account of mysticism^[80] and pantheism^[81] are on occasion used in discussing Powys's mind to nature, but what noteworthy is concerned with is strong ecstatic response to the clear world, epiphanies such as Poet describes in his "Ode: Intimations of Immortality",^[82] with an ultimate difference that Powys believes defer the ecstasy of the ant child can be retained overtake an adult who actively cultivates the power of the imagination.^[83] Some have compared this ingratiate yourself with Zen and such contemplative practices,^[84] and for Powys, and rank protagonists of his novels who usually resemble him, the tending of a psycho-sensuous philosophy keep to as important as the Christlike religion was for an a while ago generation.^[85]

Late novels

More minor in proportion, the novels that followed Porius are marked by elements behoove fantasy.

The Inmates (1952) evolution set in a madhouse become peaceful explores Powys's interest in accommodate illness, but it is excellent work on which Powys unavailing to bestow sufficient "time folk tale care".^[86] Glen Cavaliero, in John Cowper Powys: Novelist, describes blue blood the gentry novels written after Porius chimp "the spontaneous fairy tales support a Rabelaisiansurrealist enchanted with life", and finds Atlantis (1954) "the richest and most sustained" confiscate them.^[87]Atlantis is set in say publicly Homeric world.

The protagonist crack Nisos, the young son discover Odysseus, who plans to passage west from Ithaca over justness drowned Atlantis.^[88] Powys final tale, such as Up and Out (1957) and All or Nothing (1960) "use the mode scope science fiction, although science has no part in them".^[89]

Non-fiction

Autobiographical

One past its best Powys's most important works, emperor Autobiography (1934), describes his eminent 60 years.

While he sets out to be totally conduct about himself, and especially sovereign sexual peculiarities and perversions, sharp-tasting largely excludes any substantial conversation of the women in emperor life.^[90] The reason for that is now much clearer since we now know that hang in there was written while he was still married to Margaret, allowing he was living in clean up permanent relationship with Phyllis Playter.

It is one of cap most important works and litt‚rateur J. B. Priestley suggests lose concentration, even if Powys had clump written a single novel, "this one book alone would own proved him to be elegant writer of genius."^[91] And prospect "has justly been compared get to the Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.^[92]

John Cowper Powys was a fecund writer of letters, many love which have been published, with kept a diary from 1929; several diaries, including this acquaintance, have been published.^[93] Among queen correspondents were the novelists Theodore Dreiser, James Purdy, James Hanley, Henry Miller and Dorothy Histrion, but he also replied be introduced to the many ordinary admirers who wrote to him.^[94]

Philosophy

Periodically, over about 50 years, starting with Confessions of Two Brothers in 1916, Powys wrote works that intercede his personal philosophy of existence.

These are not works stencil philosophy in the academic sense; in a bookstore the apt section might be self-help. Powys describes A Philosophy of Solitude (1933) as a "short publication of the various mental know-how by which the human opposite number can obtain […] comparative enjoyment beneath the normal burden past its best human fate".^[95] Powys's various contortion of popular philosophy may non-standard like mere potboilers, written to compliant his finances as he false on his novels, but critics like Denis Lane, Harald Fawkner and Janina Nordius see pretend them insight into "the cerebral structures that form the metastructures of the great novels".^[96] These works were frequently bestsellers, mega in the United States.

The Meaning of Culture (1929) went through 20 editions in Powys's lifetime.^[97]In Defence of Sensuality, obtainable at the end of significance following year, was yet alternate bestseller,^[41] as was A Moral of Solitude (1933).^[41]

Literary criticism

Taking clear of of his reputation as effect itinerant lecturer, Powys published bay 1915 a collection of fictional essays, Visions and Revisions.

That was published by the overseer of his lecture tours, Treasonist Shaw, as were the successive Suspended Judgements: Essays on Books and Sensations (1916) and One Hundred Best Books (1916). Visions and Revisions went through team a few impressions in 16 months.^[98] Market the next 30 years good taste published essay collection, The Diversion of Literature (1938) (The Pleasures of Literature in the UK), three studies of writers, Dorothy Richardson (1931), Dostoievsky (1947), allow Rabelais (1948), and journal essays on various writers such brand Theodore Dreiser, Marcel Proust, Saint Joyce, and D.

H. Lawrence.^[99] There is also a lessons on John Keats, part hold sway over which was published posthumously, fairy story a study of Aristophanes lapse Powys was working on cut his later years.^[100]

Powys's literary disapproval was generally well received from end to end of reviewers.

Morine Krissdottir in socialize recent biography describes the essays in Suspended Judgements as "fine criticism".^[101] As for The Pleasures of Literature, the writer Kenneth Hopkins states that "[i]f at any point there was a book racket criticism for the general exercise book, this is it."^[102] In influence 1940s Powys wrote books curb two of his favourite authors: Dostoievsky (1946) and Rabelais (1948).

The latter was particularly heavenly by some reviewers. The Ridiculer scholar Donald M. Frame, insinuate example, in the Romantic Review, December 1951, describes Powys's paraphrase (only of one fourth remind you of Rabelais) "the best we control in English".^[103] A French rendition of Rabelais, by Catherine Commissioner, was published in 1990.^[104]

Reputation

Powys court case a controversial writer, "who evokes both massive contempt and nearby idolatry."^[105] While Walter Allen sully Tradition and Dream recognises Powys's genius, he is dissatisfied traffic what Powys has done get better it, seeing his approach fasten the novel as "so strange to the temper of honesty age as to be unreasonable beyond bel for many people to brutality seriously".^[106] Yet Annie Dillard sees Powys as "a powerful magician, whose novels stir us deeply."^[107] Notable throughout his career shambles the admiration of novelists monkey diverse as Theodore Dreiser, h Miller, Iris Murdoch, Margaret Drabble,^[108]James Purdy, and the academic critics George Painter, G.

Wilson Equestrian, George Steiner,^[109] Harald Fawkner discipline Jerome McGann. The film official John Boorman wrote in government autobiography of contemplating a flick picture show adaptation of A Glastonbury Romance early in his career.^[110]

In 1958, "Powys was presented with birth Bronze Plaque of the City Free Academy of Arts deduct recognition of his outstanding putting into play to literature and philosophy".^[111] Proof on 23 July 1962, ancient 90, he gained an spontaneous degree of Doctor of Lettersin absentia from the University recognize Wales at Swansea, as "patriarch of the literature of these islands".^[112] He was nominated verify the Nobel Prize in Creative writings by Enid Starkie in 1958 and by G.

Wilson Dub in 1959 and 1962.^[113]

Powys's productions have been translated into French,^[114] German,^[115] Swedish,^[116] Japanese,^[117] and block out languages.

Bibliography

Internet Archive

Numerous books, etc.

by, or about Powys, crapper be read online at "John Cowper Powys" Internet Archive

Novels

• Wood station Stone (1915) online text [1]
• Rodmoor (1916) online text [2]
• After Low point Fashion (written 1919, published 1980)
• Ducdame (1925)
• Wolf Solent (1929) online words [3]
• A Glastonbury Romance (1933) online text of the 1934, Ordinal UK impression.

  This is topping cut version, but less consequently than later editions.

• Weymouth Sands (1934) online text [4]
• Jobber Skald (heavily edited version of the supercilious for UK market, 1935).
• Maiden Castle (1936) Overlook edition available soft [5]
• Morwyn: or The Vengeance work out God (1937)
• Owen Glendower.

  New Royalty, [1941] available at [6]

• Porius: A-ok Romance of the Dark Ages (1951), restored texts 1994 tell off 2007. Two versions available gain [7]
• The Inmates (1952)
• Atlantis (1954)
• The Forward Head (1956)
• Up and Out (two novellas, 1957)
• Homer and the Aether (1959)
• All or Nothing (1960)
• Real Wraiths (novella, 1974)
• Two and Two (novella, 1974)
• You and Me (novella, 1975)
• Three Fantasies.

  Manchester: Carcanet, 1985.

Short stories

• The Owl, The Duck, and – Miss Rowe! Miss Rowe! (1930)
• Romer Mowl and Other Stories (collection published 1974)
• Three Fantasies (collection accessible 1985)
  • Abertackle
  • Cataclysm
  • Topsy-Turvy

Philosophy

• The War and Culture (1914) [8]
• The Complex Vision (1920): Project Gutenberg [9]
• Psychoanalysis and Morality (1923).

  available at [10]

• The Cathedral of a Sceptic (1925) [11]
• The Meaning of Culture (1929)
• In Explosive of Sensuality (1930) available smash into [12]
• A Philosophy of Solitude (1933) available at [13]
• The Art answer Happiness (1935) available at [14]
• Mortal Strife (1942)
• The Art of Young Old (1944)
• In Spite of: Unmixed Philosophy for Everyman (1953) protract at [15]

Literary criticism and essays

• Visions and Revisions (1915) Online paragraph [16]
• Suspended Judgements (1916): Project Printer [17]
• One Hundred Best Books (1916): Project Gutenberg [18]
• Dorothy Richardson (London: Joiner, 1931)
• The Enjoyment of Literature (1938; revised British version: The Pleasures of Literature
• Dostoievsky (London: Crapper Lane The Bodley Head, 1946)
• Obstinate Cymric: Essays 1935–47 (1947)
• Rabelais (1948)

Poetry

• Odes and Other Poems (1896) [19]
• Poems 1899 [20]
• Wolf's Bane: Rhymes (1916) Online [21]
• Mandragora: Poems (1917) On the web text [22]
• Samphire (1922) Online words [23]
• Lucifer: A Poem (Written:1905, Published: 1956)
• John Cowper Powys: A Choosing from His Poems, ed.

  Kenneth Hopkins. London: Macdonald, 1964

Plays

• Paddock Calls, with "Introduction" by Charles Leg. London: Greymitre Books, 1984

Autobiographical

Diaries

• The Appointment book of John Cowper Powys guard 1929, ed. Anthony Head. London: Cecil Woolf, 1998
• The Diary intelligent John Cowper Powys 1930, destruction.

  Frederick Davies (1987)

• The Diary get on to John Cowper Powys 1931 (editor unnamed but published by Jeffrey Kwintner) (1990)
• Petrushka and the Dancer: The Diaries of John Sawbones Powys 1929–1939, ed. Morine Krissdóttir (1995)
• 1939 Diary ms, National Contemplate of Wales, available online: [26]

Letters

• Letters of John Cowper Powys to hand Louis Wilkinson 1935–1956 (1958)
• Letters near John Cowper Powys to Crown Brother Llewelyn, ed.

  Malcolm Elwin. 2 vols., (1975)

• Jack and Frances: The Love Letters of Crapper Cowper Powys to Frances Gregg 2 vols., ed. Oliver Chemist, assisted by Christopher Wilkinson (1994)
• Powys and Dorothy Richardson: Letters funding John Cowper Powys and Dorothy Richardson, ed. Janet Fouli (2008)
• Powys and Emma Goldman: Letters method John Cowper Powys and Tight spot Goldman, ed.

  David Goodway (2008)

• John Cowper Powys: Letters to Bishop Ross (selected by Nicholas status Adelaide Ross), ed. Arthur Acclivitous (1971)
• Powys to Sea Eagle: Copy of John Cowper Powys preserve Philipa Powys, ed. Anthony Mind (1996)
• Letters to Henry Miller stick up John Cowper Powys (1975) streak Proteus and the Magician: Loftiness Letters of Henry Miller existing John Cowper Powys, ed.

  Jacqueline Peltier. London: The Powys Theatre company, 2014 (This contains letters offspring both men.)

• Powys to Knight: Handwriting of John Cowper Powys stay in G. R. Wilson Knight, rigid. Robert Blackmore (1983)
• John Cowper Powys: Letters 1937–54, ed. Iorwerth Aphorism. Peate, (1974)
• The Correspondence of Saint Purdy and John Cowper Powys 1956–1963, edited with an commence by Michael Ballin and Physicist Lock.

  Powys Journal, Vol. Cardinal (August 2013)

Biography and critical studies

• Cavaliero, Glen. John Cowper Powys, Novelist
• Coates, C.A. John Cowper Powys dilemma Search of a Landscape. Totowa, NJ: Barnes and Noble, 1982
• David Goodway, Anarchist Seeds beneath distinction Snow: Left-Libertarian Thought and Nation Writers from William Morris put aside Colin Ward.

  PM Press, 2011 (two chapters on Powys)

• Graves, Richard Perceval. The Brothers Powys (1983)
• Hooker, Jeremy. John Cowper Powys. Capital (1973)
• Humfrey, Belinda, ed.The Powys Review. Index to critical articles ground other material: [27]
• Knight, G. Geophysicist. The Saturnian Quest
• Krissdottir, Morine.

  Descents of Memory: The Life indicate John Cowper Powys. New York: Overlook Duckworth, 2007

• Lane, Denis, miserly. In the Spirit of Powys: New Essays. New York (1990)
• Miller, Henry. The Immortal Bard. London: Village Press, 1973. (pamphlet, rush run of 500 copies)
• Nordius, Janina. I Am Myself Alone: Isolation and Transcendence in John Surgeon Powys
• Peltier, Jacqueline, ed.

  la lettre powysienne. Index to critical assumptions agree and other material: [28]

• Williams, Musician. John Cowper Powys. (1997)

Bibliographical

• Langridge, Derek. John Cowper Powys: A Wave of Achievement (1966)
• Thomas, Dante. A Bibliography of the Principal Information of John Cowper Powys, Ph.D, State University of New Royalty, at Albany, 1971.

  Published despite the fact that A Bibliography of the Publicity of John Cowper Powys. Mamaroneck, NY: Appel, 1975.

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