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John Cowper Powys ( / ˈkuːpər ˈpoʊɪs / KOO-pər POH-iss; 8 October 1872 – 17 June 1963) was an English novelist, philosopher, lecturer, critic and poet born in Shirley, Derbyshire, where his father was vicar of the parish church in 1871–1879. [1]
- John Cowper Powys's Autobiography
John Cowper Powys's (1872–1963) Autobiography, published in...
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Weymouth Sands is a novel by John Cowper Powys, which was...
- John Cowper Powys's Autobiography
Wolf resembles John Cowper Powys in that an elemental philosophy is at the centre of his life and, because, like Powys, he hates science and modern inventions like cars and planes, and is attracted to slender, androgynous women. Wolf Solent is the first of Powys's four Wessex novels.
- John Cowper Powys
- 1929
Apr 27, 2024 · John Cowper Powys was a prolific novelist, essayist, letter writer, poet and philosopher, and a writer of enormous scope, complexity, profundity and humour. A powerful orator, he spent over thirty years as an itinerant lecturer in the United States, during which time he wrote his first four novels.
John Cowper Powys was a Welsh novelist, essayist, and poet, known chiefly for his long panoramic novels, including Wolf Solent (1929), A Glastonbury Romance (1932), and Owen Glendower (1940). He was the brother of the authors T.F. Powys and Llewelyn Powys.
Name: John Cowper Powys Date of birth: 1872 Date of death: 1963 Spouse: Margaret Alice Powys (née Lyon) Parent: Mary Powys (née Cowper-Johnson) Parent: Charles Francis Powys Gender: Male Occupation: novelist, poet, literary critic and popular philosopher Area of activity: Education; Literature and Writing; Poetry; Scholarship and Languages ...
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