John Cowper Powys (1872–1963)
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British novelist, poet and philosopher John Cowper Powys was born in Shirley, Derbyshire on October 8, 1872. He was a lecturer for more than three decades, traveling across America but eventually returned to Great Britain. He has written regional romances, historical fiction and critical studies mehr anzeigen including A Glastonbury Romance and Wolf Solent. He died on June 17, 1963. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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- Geburtstag
- 1872-10-08
- Todestag
- 1963-06-17
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- UK
- Land (für Karte)
- England, UK
- Geburtsort
- Shirley, Derbyshire, England, UK
- Sterbeort
- Blaenau Ffestiniogg, Merioneth, Wales
- Wohnorte
- Shirley, Derbyshire, England, UK
USA
Blaenau Ffestiniogg, Merioneth, Wales - Ausbildung
- University of Cambridge (BA|1894|Corpus Christi)
- Berufe
- teacher
essayist
poet
critic
novelist - Beziehungen
- Powys, Llewelyn (brother)
Gregory, Alyse (sister-in-law)
Powys, T. F. (brother)
Powys, Littleton (brother)
Myers, Elizabeth (sister-in-law)
Cowper, William (ancestor) (Zeige alle 9)
Powys, Margaret (wife)
Powys, Littleton Alfred (son)
Playter, Phyllis (partner)
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PORIUS: A 3rd edition. in Le Salon Littéraire du Peuple pour le Peuple (Januar 2012)
Notes for a potential reading of John Cowper Powys's PORIUS in 2011. in Le Salon Littéraire du Peuple pour le Peuple (Juni 2011)
Group read: A Glastonbury Romance in 75 Books Challenge for 2011 (März 2011)
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I should have known, really. Many years ago, a friend gave me A Glastonbury Romance solely because it was the only book he had found that was thicker than The Lord of the Rings. The prose style was so turgid, so convoluted, so pretentious, that I caused much hilarity among my schoolfellows by reading out a sentence or two from the first chapter. This book is no better. Powys is verbose; relenstlessly verbose; oppressively verbose. He never uses one word where six would do; he stacks ideas and piles up subordinate clauses until the reader is desperately grasping, or gasping, for the end of the sentence. He ladles in classical reference in such a way that you feel he is giving you information about his mythological sources, but you seem to end up none the wiser, and battered by the onslaught of names and attributes. After several pages of philosophizing and rumination on the part of a range of mysteriously sentient characters such as a fly, a moth, a large wooden club, and a pillar of Odyseuss's palace, the author has both exhibited and then obscured whatever deep and cosmic idea it was that motivated his writing.
I just lost patience with it. Life is really too short to spend time on such an annoying book!
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