John Cowper Powys (Shirley, Derbyshire, 1872ko urriaren 8a - Blaenau Ffestiniog, 1963ko ekainaren 17a) galestar filosofo, eleberrigile, literatura kritikari eta olerkaria izan zen. Arrakasta lortu zuen 1929an Wolf Solent eleberriarekin. Zenbait idazleren eragina izan zuen, bereziki Thomas Hardyrena. Bere eleberrietan paisaia papera nagusia jokatzen du. Galesko gaiko bi eleberri historiko garrantzitsu idatzi zituen: Owen Glendower eta Porius.
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Bizitza | |
Jaiotza | Shirley (en) ![]() |
Herrialdea | ![]() |
Heriotza | Blaenau Ffestiniog, 1963ko ekainaren 17a (90 urte) |
Familia | |
Aita | Charles Francis Powys |
Ezkontidea(k) | Margaret Alice Powys (en) ![]() |
Seme-alabak | ikusi
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Anai-arrebak | |
Hezkuntza | |
Heziketa | Corpus Christi College (en) ![]() Sherborne School (en) ![]() |
Hizkuntzak | ingelesa |
Jarduerak | |
Jarduerak | poeta, filosofoa, idazlea eta literatura-kritikaria |
Lan nabarmenak | |
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Lanak
Eleberriak
- Wood and Stone (1915) online text
- Rodmoor (1916) online text
- After My Fashion (written 1919, published 1980)
- Ducdame (1925)
- Wolf Solent (1929) online text
- A Glastonbury Romance (1933)
- Weymouth Sands (1934) online text
- Jobber Skald.
- Maiden Castle (1936)
- Morwyn: or The Vengeance of God (1937)
- Owen Glendower. New York, [1941]
- Porius: A Romance of the Dark Ages (1951).
- The Inmates (1952)
- Atlantis (1954)
- The Brazen Head (1956)
- Up and Out (bi eleberri labur, 1957)
- Homer and the Aether (1959)
- All or Nothing (1960)
- Real Wraiths (eleberri labur, 1974)
- Two and Two (eleberri labur, 1974)
- You and Me (eleberri labur, 1975)
Istorio laburrak
- The Owl, The Duck, and – Miss Rowe! Miss Rowe! (1930)
- Romer Mowl and Other Stories (1974an argitaratua)
- Three Fantasies (1985ean argitaratua)
- Abertackle
- Cataclysm
- Topsy-Turvy
Filosofia
- The War and Culture (1914)
- The Complex Vision (1920): Project Gutenberg
- Psychoanalysis and Morality (1923).
- The Religion of a Sceptic (1925)
- The Meaning of Culture (1929)
- In Defence of Sensuality (1930)
- A Philosophy of Solitude (1933)
- The Art of Happiness (1935)
- Mortal Strife (1942)
- The Art of Growing Old (1944)
- In Spite of: A Philosophy for Everyman (1953)
Literatura kritika eta saiakerak
- Visions and Revisions (1915) Online text
- Suspended Judgements (1916): Project Gutenberg
- One Hundred Best Books (1916): Project Gutenberg
- Dorothy Richardson (London: Joiner, 1931)
- The Enjoyment of Literature (1938; revised British version: The Pleasures of Literature
- Dostoievsky (London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1946)
- Obstinate Cymric: Essays 1935–47 (1947)
- Rabelais (1948)
Olerkiak
Antzezlanak
- Paddock Calls, with "Introduction" by Charles Lock. London: Greymitre Books, 1984.
Autobiografia
Egunerokoak
- The Diary of John Cowper Powys for 1929, ed. Anthony Head. London: Cecil Woolf, 1998
- The Diary of John Cowper Powys 1930, ed. Frederick Davies (1987)
- The Diary of John Cowper Powys 1931 (editor not named but published by Jeffrey Kwintner) (1990)
- Petrushka and the Dancer: The Diaries of John Cowper Powys 1929–1939, ed. Morine Krissdóttir (1995)
- 1939 Diary ms, National Library of Wales, available online:
Gutunak
- Letters of John Cowper Powys to Louis Wilkinson 1935–1956 (1958)
- Letters of John Cowper Powys to His Brother Llewelyn, ed. Malcolm Elwin. 2 vols., (1975)
- Jack and Frances: The Love Letters of John Cowper Powys to Frances Gregg 2 vols., ed. Oliver Wilkinson, assisted by Christopher Wilkinson (1994)
- Powys and Dorothy Richardson: Letters of John Cowper Powys and Dorothy Richardson, ed. Janet Fouli (2008)
- Powys and Emma Goldman: Letters of John Cowper Powys and Emma Goldman, ed. David Goodway (2008)
- John Cowper Powy: Letters to Nicholas Ross (Selected by Nicholas and Adelaide Ross), ed. Arthur Uphill (1971)
- Powys to Sea Eagle: Letters of John Cowper Powys to Philipa Powys, ed. Anthony Head (1996)
- Letters to Henry Miller from John Cowper Powys (1975) and Proteus and the Magician: The Letters of Henry Miller and John Cowper Powys, ed. Jacqueline Peltier. London: The Powys Society, 2014 (This contains letters by both men).
- Powys to Knight: Letters of John Cowper Powys to G. R. Wilson Knight, ed. Robert Blackmore (1983)
- John Cowper Powys: Letters 1937–54, ed. Iorwerth C. Peate, (1974)
- "The Correspondence of James Purdy and John Cowper Powys 1956–1963", edited with an introduction by Michael Ballin and Charles Lock. Powys Journal, Vol. XXIII (August 2013)
Biografiak eta azterlan kritikoak
- Cavaliero, Glen. John Cowper Powys, Novelist
- Coates, C.A. John Cowper Powys in Search of a Landscape. Totowa, NJ: Barnes and Noble, 1982
- Graves, Richard Perceval. The Brothers Powys (1983)
- Hooker, Jeremy. John Cowper Powys. Cardiff (1973)
- Humfrey, Belinda, ed.The Powys Review. Index to critical articles and other material:
- Knight, G. Wilson. The Saturnian Quest
- Krissdottir, Morine. Descents of Memory: The Life of John Cowper Powys. New York: Overlook Duckworth, 2007
- Lane, Denis, ed. In the Spirit of Powys: New Essays. New York (1990)
- Nordius, Janina. I Am Myself Alone: Solitude and Transcendence in John Cowper Powys
- Peltier, Jacqueline, ed. la lettre powysienne. Index to critical articles and other material:
- Williams, Herbert. John Cowper Powys. (1997)
Bibliografia
- Langridge, Derek. John Cowper Powys: A Record of Achievement (1966)
- Thomas, Dante. A Bibliography of the Principal Writings of John Cowper Powys, Ph.D, State University of New York, at Albany, 1971. Published as A Bibliography of the Writings of John Cowper Powys. Mamaroneck, NY: Appel, 1975.
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