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19 de dez. de 2013 · John Cowper Powys. Faber & Faber, Dec 19, 2013 - Biography & Autobiography - 662 pages. 'I have tried to write my life as if I were confessing to a priest, a philosopher, and a wise old woman. I have tried to write as if I were going to be executed when it was finished. I have tried to write it as if I were both God and Devil.'.
John Cowper Powys wrote compulsively: letters, diaries, short stories, fantasies, poetry, literary criticism, philosophy and, above all, novels poured out of him. He also wrote a remarkable autobiography. In addition to his Autobiography his masterpieces are considered to be Wolf Solent, Glastonbury Romance, Weymouth Sands and Porius.
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John Cowper Powys: Autobiography, A Reader’s Companion W. J. Keith December 2005 University College, University of Toronto, Toronto, M5S 3H7, Canada. Preface The aim of this list is to provide background information that will enrich a reading of Powys’s remarkable autobiography. It glosses biblical, literary, and other allusions, identifies ...
11 de ago. de 2006 · T he realm of John Cowper Powys is dangerous. The reader may wander for years in this parallel universe, entrapped and bewitched, and never reach its end. There is always another book to discover ...
Powys, John Cowper Powys G DUCKWORTH , 2010 - Biography & Autobiography - 704 pages A classic being restored to print for the first time in more than a decade, AUTOBIOGRAPHY is a vital and uninhibited self-portrait by one of the major literary figures of the twentieth century.
Coming to Terms with John Cowper Powys's Autobiography *. real honest self-portrait." {Autobiography, 539) "Even such an autobiographist as I am cannot tell all." For the last two years I have been devoting much of my time to a detailed consideration of JCP's Autobiography. My original motive.
8 de nov. de 2011 · John Cowper Powys (1872-1963) was born in Derbyshire, brought up in the West Country (the Somerset/Dorset border area was to have a lasting influence on him), went to Cambridge University and then became a teacher and lecturer mainly in the USA where he lived for about thirty years.
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