Author: Peter John Foss
Publisher:
ISBN:
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.
A Study of Llewelyn Powys
Author: Peter John Foss
Publisher:
ISBN:
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.
Publisher:
ISBN:
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 Tortured Life of Scofield Thayer
Author: James Dempsey
Publisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 0813047536
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
The influential literary magazine The Dial is regarded as a titanic artistic and aesthetic achievement for having published most of the great modernist writers, artists, and critics of its day. As publisher and editor of The Dial from 1920 to 1926, Scofield Thayer was gatekeeper and guide for the movement, introducing the ideas of literary modernism to America and giving American artists a new audience in Europe. In The Tortured Life of Scofield Thayer, James Dempsey looks beyond the public figure best known for publishing the work of William Butler Yeats, T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, E.E. Cummings, and Marianne Moore to reveal a paradoxical man fraught with indecisions and insatiable appetites, and deeply conflicted about the artistic movement to which he was benefactor and patron. Thayer suffered from schizophrenia and faded from public life upon his resignation from The Dial. Because of his mental illness and controversial life, his guardians refused to allow anything of a personal nature to appear in previous biographies. The story of Thayer's unmoored and peripatetic life, which in many ways mirrored the cosmopolitan rootlessness of modernism, has never been fully told until now.
Publisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 0813047536
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
The influential literary magazine The Dial is regarded as a titanic artistic and aesthetic achievement for having published most of the great modernist writers, artists, and critics of its day. As publisher and editor of The Dial from 1920 to 1926, Scofield Thayer was gatekeeper and guide for the movement, introducing the ideas of literary modernism to America and giving American artists a new audience in Europe. In The Tortured Life of Scofield Thayer, James Dempsey looks beyond the public figure best known for publishing the work of William Butler Yeats, T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, E.E. Cummings, and Marianne Moore to reveal a paradoxical man fraught with indecisions and insatiable appetites, and deeply conflicted about the artistic movement to which he was benefactor and patron. Thayer suffered from schizophrenia and faded from public life upon his resignation from The Dial. Because of his mental illness and controversial life, his guardians refused to allow anything of a personal nature to appear in previous biographies. The story of Thayer's unmoored and peripatetic life, which in many ways mirrored the cosmopolitan rootlessness of modernism, has never been fully told until now.
Llewelyn Powys
Author: Kenneth Hopkins
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
The Ecstatic World of John Cowper Powys
Author: Harald William Fawkner
Publisher: Associated University Presse
ISBN: 9780838632499
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Publisher: Associated University Presse
ISBN: 9780838632499
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
A Private Madness
Author: Evelyn Helmick Hively
Publisher: Kent State University Press
ISBN: 9780873387460
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Elinor Wylie's body of work - four novels and four volumes of poetry produced between 1921 and 1928 - has often been overshadowed by her controversial personal life. In A Private Madness Evelyn Hively explores the points at which her life and her art intersect and demonstrates how Wylie used language and literary form to transform the chaos of her experiences. This purpose was successfully met, as A Private Madness presents Wylie and her work within the culture of the twenties. Described by contemporaries as an icon of the age, Wylie was illustrative of the tone and mores of the notorious decade in which her poems, novels, and Vanity Fair articles were written. Her friendships with such notables as Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, and William Rose Benet and the events she endured - her father suffered breakdowns and a brother, a sister, and her first husband fell victim to suicide - colored her life and often mirrored the temper of the twenties. Her independence, unconventional behavior, narcissism, interest in the occult, the frantic pace of her life, and her problem with alcohol are evident in her novels and her poems. Her work embraces the escapism of the era in which
Publisher: Kent State University Press
ISBN: 9780873387460
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Elinor Wylie's body of work - four novels and four volumes of poetry produced between 1921 and 1928 - has often been overshadowed by her controversial personal life. In A Private Madness Evelyn Hively explores the points at which her life and her art intersect and demonstrates how Wylie used language and literary form to transform the chaos of her experiences. This purpose was successfully met, as A Private Madness presents Wylie and her work within the culture of the twenties. Described by contemporaries as an icon of the age, Wylie was illustrative of the tone and mores of the notorious decade in which her poems, novels, and Vanity Fair articles were written. Her friendships with such notables as Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, and William Rose Benet and the events she endured - her father suffered breakdowns and a brother, a sister, and her first husband fell victim to suicide - colored her life and often mirrored the temper of the twenties. Her independence, unconventional behavior, narcissism, interest in the occult, the frantic pace of her life, and her problem with alcohol are evident in her novels and her poems. Her work embraces the escapism of the era in which
The Letters of John Cowper Powys to Frances Gregg
Author: John Cowper Powys
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Ireland’s Imperial Connections, 1775–1947
Author: Daniel Sanjiv Roberts
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030259846
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
This edited collection explores the complexities of Irish involvement in empire. Despite complaining regularly of treatment as a colony by England, Ireland nevertheless played a significant part in Britain’s imperialism, from its formative period in the late eighteenth century through to the decolonizing years of the early twentieth century. Framed by two key events of world history, the American Revolution and Indian Independence, this book examines Irish involvement in empire in several interlinked sections: through issues of migration and inhabitation; through literary and historical representations of empire; through Irish support for imperialism and involvement with resistance movements abroad; and through Irish participation in the extensive and intricate networks of empire. Informed by recent historiographical and theoretical perspectives, and including several detailed archival investigations, this volume offers an interdisciplinary and evolving view of a burgeoning field of research and will be of interest to scholars of Irish studies, imperial and postcolonial studies, history and literature.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030259846
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
This edited collection explores the complexities of Irish involvement in empire. Despite complaining regularly of treatment as a colony by England, Ireland nevertheless played a significant part in Britain’s imperialism, from its formative period in the late eighteenth century through to the decolonizing years of the early twentieth century. Framed by two key events of world history, the American Revolution and Indian Independence, this book examines Irish involvement in empire in several interlinked sections: through issues of migration and inhabitation; through literary and historical representations of empire; through Irish support for imperialism and involvement with resistance movements abroad; and through Irish participation in the extensive and intricate networks of empire. Informed by recent historiographical and theoretical perspectives, and including several detailed archival investigations, this volume offers an interdisciplinary and evolving view of a burgeoning field of research and will be of interest to scholars of Irish studies, imperial and postcolonial studies, history and literature.
The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-century Literature in English
Author: Jenny Stringer
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0192122711
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
Survey of twentieth century English-language writers and writing from around the world, celebrating all major genres, with entries on literary movements, periodicals, more than 400 individual works, and articles on approximately 2,400 authors.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0192122711
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
Survey of twentieth century English-language writers and writing from around the world, celebrating all major genres, with entries on literary movements, periodicals, more than 400 individual works, and articles on approximately 2,400 authors.
Skin for Skin
Author: Llewelyn Powys
Publisher: London, Cape
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
John Cowper Powys & Llewelyn Powys were brothers, writers and both gay & have correspondence w/ Samson de Brier, early activist w/ One & Mattachine. Gayness shows more in style than content. Camp & more description of men than women.
Publisher: London, Cape
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
John Cowper Powys & Llewelyn Powys were brothers, writers and both gay & have correspondence w/ Samson de Brier, early activist w/ One & Mattachine. Gayness shows more in style than content. Camp & more description of men than women.
Anarchist Seeds beneath the Snow
Author: David Goodway
Publisher: PM Press
ISBN: 1604866675
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
From William Morris to Oscar Wilde to George Orwell, left-libertarian thought has long been an important but neglected part of British cultural and political history. In Anarchist Seeds beneath the Snow, David Goodway seeks to recover and revitalize that indigenous anarchist tradition. This book succeeds as simultaneously a cultural history of left-libertarian thought in Britain and a demonstration of the applicability of that history to current politics. Goodway argues that a recovered anarchist tradition could—and should—be a touchstone for contemporary political radicals. Moving seamlessly from Aldous Huxley and Colin Ward to the war in Iraq, this challenging volume will energize leftist movements throughout the world.
Publisher: PM Press
ISBN: 1604866675
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
From William Morris to Oscar Wilde to George Orwell, left-libertarian thought has long been an important but neglected part of British cultural and political history. In Anarchist Seeds beneath the Snow, David Goodway seeks to recover and revitalize that indigenous anarchist tradition. This book succeeds as simultaneously a cultural history of left-libertarian thought in Britain and a demonstration of the applicability of that history to current politics. Goodway argues that a recovered anarchist tradition could—and should—be a touchstone for contemporary political radicals. Moving seamlessly from Aldous Huxley and Colin Ward to the war in Iraq, this challenging volume will energize leftist movements throughout the world.