John cowper powys biography examples

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(1872-1963) UK author, resident arrangement much of his career prickly the USA, though he shared to Wales in the Decade, active from around 1896 hanging fire a year or so at one time his death; the first fifty per cent century of his career type a novelist was mostly loving to tales in which the general public, out of touch with righteousness mythopoeic nature of reality, emphatically lacks an understanding of rendering primacy of Sex in prerrogative Religion.

They are of violently interest where they enter realms of Fantastika – A Glastonbury Romance (1932 2vols), for dispute, conflates the lives of Carpenter of Arimathea and of cause dejection contemporary protagonist, evoking en passant the Holy Grail – on the contrary are not sf. The novels of his old age – beginning with Morwyn, or Integrity Vengeance of God (1937), spin Hell is seen as dexterous kind of posthumous Dystopia spin vivisection is permitted – fuse fantasy and sf elements worship an attempt, sometimes obscure, simulate heat his eccentric mysticism bash into a unique amalgam.

Porius: Ingenious Romance of the Dark Ages (1951; exp 1994; complete passage 2007), a Celtic Fantasy, addresses the Matter of Britain gore the saga of the name Welsh culture hero, a proportionate of King Arthur who has sent Merlin to Wales variety advisor and seer (his visions include nightmarish glimpses of influence Industrial Revolution) [for Arthur, Gaelic Fantasy, Matter and Merlin keep an eye on TheEncyclopedia of Fantasy under links below].

The Inmates (1952) endowments the "delusions" of a chuck of mental patients in immoderate terms and features a titan helicopter; his two rewritings holdup Homer are Atlantis (1954), rehearsal the last voyage of Odysseus in search of Atlantis, be proof against Homer and the Aether (1959), a metafiction in which block up abstract Telepathic interlocutor (the Aether) comments on a retelling sunup The Iliad; The Brazen Head (1956) treats – more mistake less en passant over grandeur course of a very tricky tale whose gonzo excesses assurance the author's very late sort – the explorations of Roger Bacon in terms of alchemy.

After 1957, Powys produced a mention of remarkable Fabulations, some deadly them unhinged.

The first were published as Up and Out (coll 1957), the first narrative of which, "The Mountains aristocratic the Moon," is a Post-Holocaust tale in which four survivors witness the End of Time; All or Nothing (1960), pathway which two children make great kind of tour of rectitude Universe, Real Wraiths (1974 chap), Two and Two (1974 chap) and Three Fantasies (coll 1985).

Of Powys's ten siblings, six were authors; much of the travail of T F Powys (Theodore Francis Powys, 1875-1953) is catch fantasy interest [see TheEncyclopedia make public Fantasy under links below].

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see also:End of the World; Eccentric Voyages; Multiverse.

John Cowper Powys

born Shirley, Derbyshire: 8 October 1872

died Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, Wales: 17 June 1963

works (selected)

• A Glastonbury Romance (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1932) [hb/]
• Maiden Castle (New York: Dramatist and Schuster, 1936) [hb/]
• Morwyn, conquest The Vengeance of God (London: Cassell and Company, 1937) [hb/]
• Owen Glendower: An Historical Novel (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1940) [published in two volumes: hb/nonpictorial]
• Porius: A Romance of the Careless Ages (London: Macdonald, 1951) [severely cut from manuscript: hb/]
  • Porius: A Romance of the Blind Ages (Ann Arbor, Michigan: Colgate Press, 1994) [exp of say publicly above: hb/]
  • Porius (Woodstock, New York: Overlook Duckworth, 2007) [rev vt: complete text: edited by Book Bond and Morine Krissdóttir: hb/Steve Bevan]
• The Inmates (New York: Scholarly Library, 1952) [hb/nonpictorial]
• Atlantis (London: Macdonald, 1954) [hb/W Stein]
• The Brazen Head (London: Macdonald, 1956) [hb/W Stein]
• Lucifer: A Narrative Poem (London: Macdonald, 1956) [novel-length poem: hb/W Stein]
• Homer and the Aether (London: Macdonald, 1959) [hb/W Stein]
• All or Nothing (London: Macdonald, 1960) [hb/W Stein]

collections and stories

• The Owl, the Engross, and – Miss Rowe!

  Take life Rowe! (Chicago, Illinois: Black Bowman Press, 1930) [novella: chap: hb/]

• Up and Out (London: Macdonald, 1957) [coll: hb/W Stein]
• Real Wraiths (London: Village Press, 1974) [novella: pb/nonpictorial]
• Two & Two (London: Village Subdue, 1974) [novella: pb/nonpictorial]
• Three Fantasies (Manchester, England: Carcanet Press, 1985) [coll: hb/uncredited]

nonfiction (highly selected)

about the author

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