Author: Llewelyn Powys Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing ISBN: 1789123674 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 304
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
Author: John Cowper Powys Publisher: Manchester : Carcanet Press ; New York : St. Martin's Press ; Paris : Alyscamps Press ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 384
Book Description
The diary entries of John Cowper Powys begin in America, where Powys had just retired after 25 years of freelance lecturing, and end in Wales, with the completion of Owen Glendower. His day-to-day preoccupations - from the aesthetic to the anatomical - are evident here, along with reflections on his works in progress (numerous essays on philosophy, religion and literature, and four novels including A Glastonbury Romance), encounters with members of his family, and detailed observations of rural life in upstate New York, in the West Country, and in Wales. The diary also charts Powys's life with Phyllis Playter, to form her biography as well as his autobiography.
Author: Belinda Humfrey Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 304
Book Description
John Cowper, Theodore Francis, and Llewelyn Powys, The most famous members of the large and talented family of the Reverend C.F. Powys, are also three of the most distinctive voices in English literature. Humfrey presents these brilliant and often ec
Author: John Cowper Powys Publisher: Pomona Press ISBN: 1443734810 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 324
Book Description
'Mr. Powys is to be congratulated on having written a book of the kind that most needs writing and most deserves to be read...Here in a dozen chapters of eloquent and glowing prose, Mr. Powys describes for every reader that citadel which is himself, and explains to him how it maybe strengthened and upheld and on what terms it is most worth upholding.. The virtue of his book is that it is freshly and clearly focussed to meet the present situation to encourage and establish developing experience in growing minds' Manchester Guardian
Author: John Cowper Powys Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic ISBN: 9780715638750 Category : Weymouth (England) Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Drawing on his own vivid childhood memories of the seaside town of Weymouth, Powys creates a striking collection of human oddities, through which he shows his deep sympathy for the variety, eccentricity and loneliness of human beings.
Author: Llewelyn Powys
Author: John Cowper Powys
Author: Llewelyn Powys
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Author: John Cowper Powys
Author: John Cowper Powys
Author: Belinda Humfrey
Author: John Cowper Powys
Author: John Cowper Powys
Author: John Cowper Powys