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John Cowper Powys's (1872–1963) Autobiography, published in 1934, the year Powys returned to Britain from America, describes his first 60 years, and is considered one of his most important works.
remarkable autobiography. It glosses biblical, literary, and other allusions, identifies quotations, explains historical and geographical references, and offers any commentary that may throw light on
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19 de dez. de 2013 · Autobiography. 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...
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...
This essay reads the 1934 prose Autobiography of the twentieth-century British novelist John Cowper Powys as a parody of Wordsworth’s Prelude. It argues that Powys revises Wordsworth’s trajectory of emotional growth, loss and recovery in ways that sometimes endorse and more often satirise the poet’s youthful love of nature and his adult ...
