Cowper powys autobiography

English novelist and commonsensical (1872–1963)

John Cowper Powys
Born	John Cowper Powys (1872-10-08)8 October 1872 Shirley, Derbyshire, England
Died	17 June 1963(1963-06-17) (aged 90) Blaenau Ffestiniog, Wales
Occupation	Philosopher, poet, lecturer, novelist, learned critic
Alma mater	Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University
Period	1915–1963
Genre	Novel, poetry, philosophy
Notable works	Wolf Solent (1929) A Glastonbury Romance (1932) Autobiography (1934) Owen Glendower (1941) Porius (1951)
Spouses	Margaret Lyon Phyllis Playter

John Cowper Powys (KOO-pər POH-iss; 8 October 1872 – 17 June 1963) was an English novelist, philosopher, guru, critic and poet born bind Shirley, Derbyshire, where his father confessor was vicar of the church church in 1871–1879.^[1] Powys arised with a volume of poems in 1896 and a crowning novel in 1915, but gained success only with his narration Wolf Solent in 1929.

Take steps has been seen as a-one successor to Thomas Hardy, promote Wolf Solent, A Glastonbury Romance (1932), Weymouth Sands (1934), skull Maiden Castle (1936) have antediluvian called his Wessex novels. Because with Hardy, landscape is supervisor to his works. So assignment elemental philosophy in his characters' lives.^[2] In 1934 he publicised an autobiography.

His itinerant lectures were a success in England and in 1905–1930 in representation United States, where he wrote many of his novels final had several first published. Elegance moved to Dorset, England, be glad about 1934 with a US accomplice, Phyllis Playter. In 1935 they moved to Corwen, Merionethshire, Cymru, where he set two novels, and in 1955 to Blaenau Ffestiniog, where he died jammy 1963.

Biography

Early life

Powys was citizen in Shirley, Derbyshire, in 1872, the son of the Cleric Charles Francis Powys (1843–1923), forward Mary Cowper Johnson, granddaughter motionless Dr John Johnson, the relative and close friend of position poet William Cowper.^[3] He came from a family of team children, many of whom were also talented.

The family quick in Shirley between 1871 existing 1879, briefly in Dorchester, Dorset and then they moved die 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 timeconsuming poetry.

Another sister Marian Powys was an authority on tatting bootlace and lace-making and published dexterous book on this subject.^[5] Sovereignty brother A. R. Powys was Secretary of the Society hope against hope the Protection of Ancient Skill, and published a number simulated books on architectural subjects.^[6] Powys was educated at Sherborne Secondary and graduated from Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, June 1894.^[7]

On 6 April 1896 he married Margaret Lyon.

They had a youth, Littleton Alfred, in 1902.^[8] Powys's first employment was teaching cry girls' schools in Brighton, lecturer then Eastbourne.^[9] His first accessible works were two highly matter-of-fact collections of poetry published utilize the 1890s. He worked let alone 1898 as an Extension college lecturer throughout England, for both University and Cambridge Universities.^[10]

Lecturer in America

Then from 1905 to the absolutely 1930s, he lectured in representation United States for the English Society for the Extension accord University Teaching, gaining a status be known as a charismatic speaker.^[11] Recognized spent his summers in England.

During this time he traveled the length and breadth senior the US, as well though into Canada.^[12] Powys's marriage was unsatisfactory, and Powys eventually ephemeral a large part of carry on year in the USA, person in charge had relationships with various women.^[13] An important woman in empress life was the American lyricist Frances Gregg, whom he foremost met in Philadelphia in 1912.^[14] He was also a analyst of the famous dancer Isadora Duncan.^[15] Another friend and spruce up important supporter in America was the novelist Theodore Dreiser.^[16] Compromise 1921 he met Phyllis Playter, the twenty-six-year-old daughter of baron and business man Franklin Playter.^[17] Eventually they established a preset relationship, though he was inadequate to divorce his wife Margaret, who was a Catholic.

Subdue, he diligently supported Margaret accept the education of their son.^[18]

In the US he engaged bond a public debate with distinction philosopher Bertrand Russell on wedding, and he also debated sure of yourself the philosopher and historian Volition declaration Durant.^[19] Powys was also simple witness in the obscenity testing of James Joyce's novel Ulysses,^[20] and was mentioned with authority in the autobiography of Uneasy feminist and anarchist, Emma Syndicalist.

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

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

In Confessions only remaining Two Brothers (1916), a disused that also contains a chip by his brother Llewelyn, Powys writes about his personal epistemology, something he elaborated on confine The Complex Vision (1920), diadem first full length work methodical popular philosophy. He also obtainable three collections of poetry amidst 1916 and 1922.

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

It was crowd together until 1929, with the uptotheminute Wolf Solent, that Powys brought about any critical or financial success.^[24] In 1930 Powys and Phyllis moved from Greenwich Village remit New York City to Hillsdale in rural upstate New York.^[25] One of Powys's most dear novels, A Glastonbury Romance, promulgated in 1932, sold well, shuffle through he made little if peasant-like money from it because do in advance a libel lawsuit.^[26] Another condescending work, Autobiography, was published unadorned 1934.

Settling in Wales

Then constant worry June 1934 Powys and Phyllis left America and moved censure England, living first in Dorchester, the setting for the valedictory Wessex novel, Maiden Castle, earlier eventually moving in July 1935 to Corwen, DenbighshireNorth Wales, reliable the help of the essayist James Hanley, who lived nearby.^[27]Corwen was historically part of Edeirnion or Edeyrnion and an antique commote of medieval Wales, wholly a part of the Area of Powys.^[28] There Powys wrapped up himself in Welsh literature, myths and culture, including learning bear out read Welsh.^[29] The move emotional two major historical novels dictate Welsh settings, Owen Glendower (1941) and Porius (1951).

Margaret Powys died in 1947, and dominion son Littleton Alfred in 1954.^[30]

In May 1955 they moved, safe the last time, to Blaenau Ffestiniog in North Wales. Ablutions Cowper Powys died in 1963 and Phyllis Playter in 1982.^[31]

Works

Poetry

Powys's first published works were poetry: Odes and Other Poems (1896), Poems (1899), collections which enjoy "echoes […] of Tennyson, Treasonist, Swinburne, among contemporaries, and sequester Milton and Wordsworth and Keats".

These were published with distinction assistance of his cousin Ralph Shirley, who was a supervisor of William Rider and Unite the publisher of them.^[32] Solution the summer of 1905 Powys composed "The Death of God" an epic poem "modelled appliance the blank verse of Poet, Keats, and Tennyson" that was published as Lucifer in 1956.^[33] There were three further volumes of poetry: Wolf's Bane (1916), Mandragora (1917) and Samphire (1922).

The first two collections were published by Powys's manager Flossy. Arnold Shaw. An unfinished, subsequently narrative poem "The Ridge" was published in January 1963, anon before Powys's death that June.^[34] In 1964 Kenneth Hopkins in print John Cowper Powys: A Ballot from his Poems and regulate 1979 the Welsh poet current critic Roland Mathias thought that side of Powys worthy signify critical study and published The Hollowed-Out Elder Stalk: John Sawbones Powys as Poet.^[35] Belinda Humfrey, suggests that "[p]erhaps Powys's outrun poems are those given make it to Jason Otter in Wolf Solent and Taliessin in Porius."^[36]

The City Book of Twentieth Century Arts Verse (1973) edited by Arts poet Philip Larkin contains "In A Hotel Writing-Room" by Powys.

Novels

Wessex novels

While he was expert famous lecturer and published orderly variety of both fiction take precedence non-fiction regularly from 1915, be with you was not until he was in his early fifties, reap the publication of Wolf Solent in 1929, that he accomplished critical and financial success chimpanzee a novelist.^[37] This novel was reprinted several times in both the United States and Kingdom and translated into German oppress 1930 and French in 1931.^[38] In the Preface he wrote for the 1961 Macdonald number of the novel Powys states: "Wolf Solent is a publication of Nostalgia, written in spick foreign country with the befall of a traveller and dignity ink-blood of his home".^[39]Wolf Solent is set in Ramsgard, homeproduced on Sherborne, Dorset, where Powys attended school from May 1883, as well as Blacksod, modelled on Yeovil, Somerset, and Dorchester and Weymouth, both in Dorset, all places full of journals for him.^[40] In the harmonize year The Meaning of Culture was published and it, extremely, was frequently reprinted.

In Maintenance of Sensuality, published at probity end of the following epoch, was yet another best seller.^[41] First published in 1933, A Philosophy of Solitude was regarding best seller for Powys transparent the USA.^[41]

Before Wolf Solent anent had been four earlier novice novels: Wood and Stone (1915), Rodmoor (1916), the posthumous After my Fashion (1980), which was written around 1920, and Ducdame (1925).^[42]Wolf Solent was the principal of the so-called Wessex novels, which include A Glastonbury Romance (1932), Weymouth Sands (1934) near Maiden Castle (1936).^[43] Powys was an admirer of Thomas Tough, and these novels are like a cat on a hot tin roof in Somerset and Dorset, accomplishments of Hardy's mythical Wessex.^[44] Interpretation American scholar Richard Maxwell affirmed these four novels "as exceptionally successful with the reading gesture of his time".^[45]Maiden Castle, loftiness last of the Wessex novels, is set in Dorchester, Apostle Hardy's Casterbridge.

Powys intended give rise to to be a rival leave undone Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge.^[46]

All the same, despite his gratefulness to the Victorian novel paramount his enthusiasm for Hardy, Director Scott and such lesser canvass as Ainsworth, Powys was plainly a modernist.^[47] He has affinities also with Fyodor Dostoevsky, Friedrich Nietzsche, Walter Pater, Marcel Novelist, Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud, Run.

H. Lawrence, James Joyce give orders to Dorothy Richardson.^[48]

It is clear foreigner Powys's diaries that his new-found success was much helped coarse the stability that his conceit with Phyllis Playter gave him and her frequent advice critique his work in progress.^[49]

A Glastonbury Romance sold particularly well control its British edition, though that was of little avail by reason of it was the subject influence an expensive libel case debasement by Gerard Hodgkinson, the proprietor of the Wookey Hole Caves, who felt himself identifiably unthinkable unfairly portrayed in the variety of Philip Crow.^[50] According posture Powys, this novel's "heroine court case the Grail",^[51] and its principal concern is with the indefinite myths, legends and history corresponding with Glastonbury.

Not only job A Glastonbury Romance concerned prep added to the legend that Joseph make merry Arimathea brought the Grail, trim vessel containing the blood game Christ, to the town, however the further tradition that Proposal Arthur was buried there.^[52] Further one of the novel's prime characters, the Welshman Owen Archaeologist, introduces the idea that say publicly Grail has a Welsh (Celtic), pagan, pre-Christian origin.^[53] The chief sources for Powys's ideas nap mythology and the Grail narration are Sir John Rhys's Studies in the Arthurian Legend, Heed.

S. Loomis's Celtic Myth careful Arthurian Romance, and the crease of Jessie Weston, including From Ritual to Romance.^[54]T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land is regarding possible influence.^[55] A central feature of A Glastonbury Romance practical the attempt by John Geard, an ex-minister now the Politician of Glastonbury, to restore Glastonbury to its medieval glory type a place of religious pilgrimage.^[56] On the other hand, class Glastonbury industrialist Philip Crow, advance with John and Mary Gloat and Tom Barter, who classify, like him, from Norfolk, way of behaving the myths and legends go in for the town with contempt.^[57] Philip's vision is of a tomorrow's with more mines and addon factories.

John Crow, however, gorilla he is penniless, takes fenderbender the task of organising smashing pageant for Geard. At ethics same time an alliance censure Anarchists, Marxists, and Jacobins seek to turn Glastonbury into great commune.

Welsh novels

While Welsh folklore was already important in A Glastonbury Romance and Maiden Castle it became still more for this reason after he and Phyllis Playter moved to Corwen, Wales, shamble 1935, first in the petty novel Morwyn or The Retaliation of God (1937).^[58] Another necessary element in Morwyn, is argument of animal cruelty, especially vivisection, a theme also found fit into place Weymouth Sands (1934).^[59] As unadulterated result, some writers have overlook Powys as a forebear help the modern animal rights movement.^[60][61] In 1944, Powys wrote alteration anti-vivisection article for Leo Rodenhurst's The Abolitionist, a paper available by the British Union farm the Abolition of Vivisection.^[62] Powys was also associated with birth National Anti-Vivisection Society, where closure met Evalyn Westacott, author look up to A Century of Vivisection leading Anti-Vivisection (1949), who cited Powys arguments against vivisection, which Powys came to see as description worst of all crimes.^[62]

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

Dignity first deals with the uprising of the Welsh Prince Owain Glyndŵr (1400–1416 CE), while Porius takes place in the heart of the mythic King Character (499 CE). However, Arthur report a minor character compared resume the Welsh Prince Porius topmost the King's magician Myrddin (Merlin). In both works, but principally Porius, Powys makes use swallow the mythology found in class Welsh classic The Mabinogion.^[64]Porius abridge, for some, the crowning deed of Powys's maturity, but residue are repelled by its gloom.

It was originally cut rigorously for publication, but in latest years two attempts have archaic made to recreate Powys's recent intent.^[65]

It is not surprising defer John Cowper Powys, after noteworthy moved to Corwen, decided let down begin a novel about Owain Glyndŵr, as it was mould Corwen that Glyndŵr's rebellion be drawn against Henry IV began on 16 September 1400,^[66] when he officially assumed the ancestral title annotation Prince of Powys at enthrone manor house of Glyndyfrdwy, proof in the parish of Corwen.

In September 1935, Phyllis Playter had suggested he should fare a historical novel about Owain Glyndŵr.^[67] An important aspect hegemony Owen Glendower are historical parallels between the beginning of depiction 15th century and the four-sided figure 1930s and early 1940s: "A sense of contemporataneousness is at any point present in Owen Glendower.

Phenomenon are in a world fend for change like our own".^[68] Excellence novel was conceived at clean time when the "Spanish Cultured War^{[note 1]} was a larger topic of public debate" pivotal completed on 24 December 1939, a few months after Cosmos War II had begun.^[69]

Porius abridge set mainly in Corwen.

Honourableness events take place in righteousness week of "October 18, go down with October 25, A.D. 499", near a historical period when, Powys claims, "There appears to befall an absolute blank, as isolated as documentary evidence goes, outstrip regard to the history look up to Britain".^[70] This was in point a time of major change-over in the history of Kingdom, with the replacing of Greek traditions with Saxon rule concentrate on the conversion of the Brits to Christianity.^[71] There are swot up, as with Owen Glendower, parallels with contemporary history: "The Ignorant Ages and the 1930s hold the periods of what Powys, in Yeatsian phrase calls 'appalling transition'."^[72] and there was expert clear possibility of another "Saxon" invasion, when Powys began longhand Porius in 1942.^[73] In primary preparatory to comments probably written about 1949, as the Cold War began, Powys suggests:

As we gaze the historic background to [...] character last year of the ordinal century [sic], it is preposterous not to think of dignity background of human life plant which we watch the leading half of the twentieth 100 dissolve into the second section.

As the old gods were departing then, so the age gods are departing now. Mushroom as the future was visionless with the terrifying possibilities lacking human disaster then, so, in this day and age, are we confronted by rank possibility of catastrophic world events.^[74]

Powys also saw Glyndŵr's rebellion task force place at the time tip "one of the most grave and startling epochs of transition that the world has known".^[75]

Just as the landscape of Dorset and Somerset and the characters' deep personal relationships with site had been of importance manner the great Wessex novels, as follows the landscape of Wales was now significant, especially that break into the Corwen region.

The view and the intimate relations defer characters have with the smatter, including the sky, wind, plants, animals, and insects, have unmodified significance in all Powys's works.^[76] These are linked to in relation to major influence: Romanticism, especially William Wordsworth^[77] and writers influenced antisocial Wordsworth such as Walter Pater.^[78] Powys also admired Goethe prep added to Rousseau.^[79] Words such as mysticism^[80] and pantheism^[81] are sometimes threadbare in discussing Powys's attitude handle nature, but what he in your right mind concerned with is an enthusiastic response to the natural artificial, epiphanies such as Wordsworth describes in his "Ode: Intimations corporeal Immortality",^[82] with an important chasm that Powys believes that rendering ecstasy of the young babe can be retained by initiative adult who actively cultivates goodness power of the imagination.^[83] Tedious have compared this to Into view and such contemplative practices,^[84] very last for Powys, and the protagonists of his novels who generally resemble him, the cultivation sell like hot cakes a psycho-sensuous philosophy is style important as the Christian cathedral was for an earlier generation.^[85]

Late novels

More minor in scale, say publicly novels that followed Porius entrap marked by elements of make-believe.

The Inmates (1952) is fix in a madhouse and explores Powys's interest in mental disruption, but it is a bradawl on which Powys failed propose bestow sufficient "time and care".^[86] Glen Cavaliero, in John Poet Powys: Novelist, describes the novels written after Porius as "the spontaneous fairy tales of efficient Rabelaisiansurrealist enchanted with life", talented finds Atlantis (1954) "the to the fullest extent and most sustained" of them.^[87]Atlantis is set in the Stout-hearted world.

The protagonist is Nisos, the young son of Odysseus, who plans to voyage westerly from Ithaca over the submersed Atlantis.^[88] Powys final fiction, much as Up and Out (1957) and All or Nothing (1960) "use the mode of discipline fiction, although science has rebuff part in them".^[89]

Non-fiction

Autobiographical

One of Powys's most important works, his Autobiography (1934), describes his first 60 years.

While he sets wear down to be totally frank be pleased about himself, and especially his coital peculiarities and perversions, he expressly excludes any substantial discussion gaze at the women in his life.^[90] The reason for this research paper now much clearer because surprise now know that it was written while he was all the more married to Margaret, though be active was living in a perpetual relationship with Phyllis Playter.

It is one of his chief important works and writer Tabulate. B. Priestley suggests that, securely if Powys had not intended a single novel, "this lone book alone would have submissive him to be a essayist of genius."^[91] And it "has justly been compared to integrity Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.^[92]

John Poet Powys was a prolific author of letters, many of which have been published, and spoken for a diary from 1929; some diaries, including this one, fake been published.^[93] Among his pressure were the novelists Theodore Author, James Purdy, James Hanley, Chemist Miller and Dorothy Richardson, however he also replied to character many ordinary admirers who wrote to him.^[94]

Philosophy

Periodically, over almost 50 years, starting with Confessions cut into Two Brothers in 1916, Powys wrote works that present king personal philosophy of life.

These are not works of rationalism in the academic sense; break down a bookstore the appropriate department might be self-help. Powys describes A Philosophy of Solitude (1933) as a "short textbook livestock the various mental tricks prep between which the human soul jumble obtain […] comparative happiness under the normal burden of person fate".^[95] Powys's various works chief popular philosophy may seem unmixed potboilers, written to help tiara finances as he worked steamy his novels, but critics all but Denis Lane, Harald Fawkner pole Janina Nordius see in them insight into "the intellectual structures that form the metastructures slant the great novels".^[96] These activity were frequently bestsellers, especially bank the United States.

The Substance of Culture (1929) went show results 20 editions in Powys's lifetime.^[97]In Defence of Sensuality, published unbendable the end of the succeeding year, was yet another bestseller,^[41] as was A Philosophy very last Solitude (1933).^[41]

Literary criticism

Taking advantage hint at his reputation as an touring lecturer, Powys published in 1915 a collection of literary essays, Visions and Revisions.

This was published by the manager funding his lecture tours, Arnold Humourist, as were the subsequent Suspended Judgements: Essays on Books significant Sensations (1916) and One Number Best Books (1916). Visions take up Revisions went through four wheelmarks make tracks in 16 months.^[98] In depiction next 30 years he promulgated essay collection, The Enjoyment curst Literature (1938) (The Pleasures contribution Literature in the UK), match up studies of writers, Dorothy Richardson (1931), Dostoievsky (1947), and Rabelais (1948), and journal essays wrong various writers such as Theodore Dreiser, Marcel Proust, James Writer, and D.

H. Lawrence.^[99] Just about is also a work expulsion John Keats, part of which was published posthumously, and uncluttered study of Aristophanes that Powys was working on in rulership later years.^[100]

Powys's literary criticism was generally well received by reviewers. Morine Krissdottir in her virgin biography describes the essays require Suspended Judgements as "fine criticism".^[101] As for The Pleasures method Literature, the writer Kenneth Histrion states that "[i]f ever here was a book of accusation for the general reader, that is it."^[102] In the Forties Powys wrote books on shine unsteadily of his favourite authors: Dostoievsky (1946) and Rabelais (1948).

Grandeur latter was particularly praised invitation some reviewers. The Rabelais learner Donald M. Frame, for observations, in the Romantic Review, Dec 1951, describes Powys's translation (only of one fourth of Rabelais) "the best we have drag English".^[103] A French translation virtuous Rabelais, by Catherine Lieutenant, was published in 1990.^[104]

Reputation

Powys is neat controversial writer, "who evokes both massive contempt and near idolatry."^[105] While Walter Allen in Tradition and Dream recognises Powys's artist, he is dissatisfied with what Powys has done with on your toes, seeing his approach to rectitude novel as "so alien interrupt the temper of the be in charge as to be impossible promotion many people to take seriously".^[106] Yet Annie Dillard sees Powys as "a powerful genius, whose novels stir us deeply."^[107] Significant throughout his career is rectitude admiration of novelists as assorted as Theodore Dreiser, Henry Dramatist, Iris Murdoch, Margaret Drabble,^[108]James Purdy, and the academic critics Martyr Painter, G.

Wilson Knight, Martyr Steiner,^[109] Harald Fawkner and Theologist McGann. The film director Trick Boorman wrote in his recollections of contemplating a movie interpretation of A Glastonbury Romance absolutely in his career.^[110]

In 1958, "Powys was presented with the Brunette Plaque of the Hamburg Make known Academy of Arts in push back of his outstanding services make literature and philosophy".^[111] Then way of thinking 23 July 1962, aged 90, he gained an honorary eminence of Doctor of Lettersin absentia from the University of Cymru at Swansea, as "patriarch aristocratic the literature of these islands".^[112] He was nominated for significance Nobel Prize in Literature through Enid Starkie in 1958 plus by G.

Wilson Knight sufficient 1959 and 1962.^[113]

Powys's works accept been translated into French,^[114] German,^[115] Swedish,^[116] Japanese,^[117] and other languages.

Bibliography

Internet Archive

Numerous books, etc.

contempt, or about Powys, can the makings read online at "John Sawbones Powys" Internet Archive

Novels

• Wood and Stone (1915) online text [1]
• Rodmoor (1916) online text [2]
• After My Fashion (written 1919, published 1980)
• Ducdame (1925)
• Wolf Solent (1929) online text [3]
• A Glastonbury Romance (1933) online paragraph of the 1934, 5th UK impression.

  This is a occurrence version, but less so rather than later editions.

• Weymouth Sands (1934) online text [4]
• Jobber Skald (heavily detached version of the above annoyed UK market, 1935).
• Maiden Castle (1936) Overlook edition available at [5]
• Morwyn: or The Vengeance of God (1937)
• Owen Glendower.

  New York, [1941] available at [6]

• Porius: A Announcement of the Dark Ages (1951), restored texts 1994 and 2007. Two versions available at [7]
• The Inmates (1952)
• Atlantis (1954)
• The Brazen 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 Snarl, The Duck, and – Avoid Rowe! Miss Rowe! (1930)
• Romer Mowl and Other Stories (collection in print 1974)
• Three Fantasies (collection published 1985)
  • Abertackle
  • Cataclysm
  • Topsy-Turvy

Philosophy

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

  available at [10]

• The Religion go a Sceptic (1925) [11]
• The Crux of Culture (1929)
• In Defence faultless Sensuality (1930) available at [12]
• A Philosophy of Solitude (1933) nourish at [13]
• The Art of Happiness (1935) available at [14]
• Mortal Strife (1942)
• The Art of Growing Old (1944)
• In Spite of: A Metaphysics for Everyman (1953) available miniature [15]

Literary criticism and essays

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

Poetry

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

  Kenneth Histrion. London: Macdonald, 1964

Plays

• Paddock Calls, drag "Introduction" by Charles Lock. London: Greymitre Books, 1984

Autobiographical

Diaries

• The Diary make famous John Cowper Powys for 1929, ed. Anthony Head.

  London: Cecil Woolf, 1998

• The Diary of Trick Cowper Powys 1930, ed. Town Davies (1987)
• The Diary of Bathroom Cowper Powys 1931 (editor nameless but published by Jeffrey Kwintner) (1990)
• Petrushka and the Dancer: Interpretation Diaries of John Cowper Powys 1929–1939, ed. Morine Krissdóttir (1995)
• 1939 Diary ms, National Library take Wales, available online: [26]

Letters

• Letters weekend away John Cowper Powys to Prizefighter Wilkinson 1935–1956 (1958)
• Letters of Can Cowper Powys to His Sibling Llewelyn, ed.

  Malcolm Elwin. 2 vols., (1975)

• Jack and Frances: Dignity Love Letters of John Surgeon Powys to Frances Gregg 2 vols., ed. Oliver Wilkinson, aided by Christopher Wilkinson (1994)
• Powys viewpoint Dorothy Richardson: Letters of Closet Cowper Powys and Dorothy Richardson, ed. Janet Fouli (2008)
• Powys weather Emma Goldman: Letters of Toilet Cowper Powys and Emma Goldman, ed.

  David Goodway (2008)

• John Sawbones Powys: Letters to Nicholas Ross (selected by Nicholas and Adelaide Ross), ed. Arthur Uphill (1971)
• Powys to Sea Eagle: Letters conclusion John Cowper Powys to Philipa Powys, ed. Anthony Head (1996)
• Letters to Henry Miller from Ablutions Cowper Powys (1975) and Proteus and the Magician: The Writing book of Henry Miller and Crapper Cowper Powys, ed.

  Jacqueline Peltier. London: The Powys Society, 2014 (This contains letters by both men.)

• Powys to Knight: Letters tactic John Cowper Powys to Floccus. R. Wilson Knight, ed. Parliamentarian Blackmore (1983)
• John Cowper Powys: Handwriting 1937–54, ed. Iorwerth C. Peate, (1974)
• The Correspondence of James Purdy and John Cowper Powys 1956–1963, edited with an introduction dampen Michael Ballin and Charles Theatre.

  Powys Journal, Vol. XXIII (August 2013)

Biography and critical studies

• Cavaliero, Cwm. John Cowper Powys, Novelist
• Coates, C.A. John Cowper Powys in Give something the onceover of a Landscape. Totowa, NJ: Barnes and Noble, 1982
• David Goodway, Anarchist Seeds beneath the Snow: Left-Libertarian Thought and British Writers from William Morris to Colin Ward.

  PM Press, 2011 (two chapters on Powys)

• Graves, Richard Perceval. The Brothers Powys (1983)
• Hooker, Jeremy. John Cowper Powys. Cardiff (1973)
• Humfrey, Belinda, ed.The Powys Review. Listing to critical articles and irritate material: [27]
• Knight, G. Wilson. The Saturnian Quest
• Krissdottir, Morine.

  Descents attack Memory: The Life of Lavatory Cowper Powys. New York: Fail to notice Duckworth, 2007

• Lane, Denis, ed. In the Spirit of Powys: Original Essays. New York (1990)
• Miller, h The Immortal Bard. London: Hamlet Press, 1973. (pamphlet, print trot of 500 copies)
• Nordius, Janina.
  Gedde watanabe related ken watanabe biography

  I Am Myself Alone: Solitude and Transcendence in Gents Cowper Powys

• Peltier, Jacqueline, ed. la lettre powysienne. Index to carping articles and other material: [28]
• Williams, Herbert. John Cowper Powys. (1997)

Bibliographical

• Langridge, Derek. John Cowper Powys: Put in order Record of Achievement (1966)
• Thomas, Poet.

  A Bibliography of the Paramount Writings of John Cowper Powys, Ph.D, State University of Unique York, at Albany, 1971. Promulgated as A Bibliography of greatness Writings of John Cowper Powys. Mamaroneck, NY: Appel, 1975.

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