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Phyllis Playter. 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]
- Novel, poetry, philosophy
- 1915–1963
- Philosopher, poet, lecturer, novelist, literary critic
- Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University
2 de abr. de 2024 · John Cowper Powys (born October 8, 1872, Shirley, Derbyshire, England—died June 17, 1963, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Merioneth, Wales) 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).
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27 de abr. de 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.
The Powys Society is an international organization that aims to promote and encourage the appreciation and enjoyment of the works of John Cowper, Theodore, and Llewelyn Powys, three brothers who wrote expansive and compact novels, biblical prose, and essays. The society offers a membership pack, a journal, a newsletter, a conference, and a website with a comprehensive and accurate resource on the life and works of the Powys brothers.
Overview. John Cowper Powys. (1872—1963) novelist and writer. Quick Reference. (1872–1963), brother of Llewelyn and Theodore Powys, was brought up in the Dorset–Somerset countryside which was to become of great importance in his later writing.
POWYS, JOHN COWPER (1872 - 1963), novelist, poet, literary critic and popular philosopher. The only one of the eleven children of the Rev. Charles Francis Powys to lay special claim to his father's Welsh ancestry.
John Cowper Powys (pronounced Poe-iss) was born in Shir-ley, Derbyshire, on 8 October 1872, but his formative years were spent in the Southwest of England, first at Dorchester, and then at Montacute in Somerset, where his father, the Reverend Charles Francis Powys, had been appointed vicar in 1885. All of this may
