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John Cowper Powys unternahm ausgedehnte und erfolgreiche Vortragsreisen – zuerst in England, danach in Kontinentaleuropa und zuletzt in den USA, wo er von 1904 bis 1934 lebte. Allabendlich schlüpfte er in die Rolle seiner literarischen Idole Dostojewski , Whitman , Homer , Goethe und Shakespeare , um einem Massenpublikum deren Werke nahezubringen.
11 de ago. de 2006 · Mrs Powys claimed literary ancestry, through the poets Donne and Cowper, and was said to have inherited Cowper's melancholia. John Cowper, now known as Jack, was sent to Sherborne School, and he ...
John Cowper Powys travaille comme enseignant à Brighton puis à Eastbourne, avant de devenir conférencier itinérant en littérature pour le compte des universités d' Oxford et de Cambridge. Il exerce ensuite en Europe continentale et enfin aux États-Unis, où il vit de 1904 à 1934.
24 de nov. de 2015 · John Cowper Powys, a clergyman’s son from Dorset, wrote what I have long considered to be the finest novel by an Englishman in the 20th century, but his name remains little known, even though he ...
John Cowper Powys, écrivain britannique du début du 20ème siècle, au caractère complexe et tourmenté, parfois à la limite de la folie, adversaire farouche du monde moderne et chantre inspiré d'un érotisme polymorphe, est le poète des forces impersonnelles, agissant en l'homme même.
John Cowper Powys 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. Powys appeared with a volume of verse in 1896 and a first novel in 1915, but gained success only with his novel Wolf Solent in 1929. He has been seen as a successor to Thomas Hardy, and Wolf Solent, A Glastonbury Romance ...
October 08, 1872. Died. June 17, 1963. Genre. Fiction. edit data. Powys was born in Shirley, Derbyshire, where his father was vicar. His mother was descended from the poet William Cowper, hence his middle name. His two younger brothers, Llewelyn Powys and Theodore Francis Powys, also became well-known writers.
