Author: Llewelyn Powys
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1789123674
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
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
Earth Memories
Author: Llewelyn Powys
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1789123674
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
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
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1789123674
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
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
Black Laughter
Author: Llewelyn Powys
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Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
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Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Llewelyn Powys
Author: Kenneth Hopkins
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 78
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
A Study of Llewelyn Powys
Author: Peter John Foss
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Category : Philosophy in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
This is a study of Llewelyn Powys's work in the light of his philosophy, and an interpretation of his philosophy in the context of his life and personality. The structure is a mosaic centred around certain nodal themes, such as epicureanism and mysticism, action and contemplation.
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Category : Philosophy in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
This is a study of Llewelyn Powys's work in the light of his philosophy, and an interpretation of his philosophy in the context of his life and personality. The structure is a mosaic centred around certain nodal themes, such as epicureanism and mysticism, action and contemplation.
“The” Verdict of Bridlegoose
The Letters of Llewelyn Powys
Author: Llewelyn Powys
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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Llewelyn Powys
The Life of Llewelyn Powys
John Cowper Powys, Theodore Francis Powys, Llewelyn Powys
Author: Alan Howe
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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The Letters of Gamel Woolsey to Llewelyn Powys, 1930-1939
Author: Gamel Woolsey
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Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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