Name: Visions and Revisions: A Book of Literary Devotions
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Author: John Cowper Powys
ISBN: 9781411451582

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Visions and Revisions: A Book of Literary Devotions

By John Cowper Powys 28 May, 2019

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Powys presents a set of literary devotions of great figures in Literature who have obsessed him. He attempts not so much a reasoned critique or any attempt to categorize these figures but rather, as he describes in the Preface: "to give [himself] up, ... Read more

Powys presents a set of literary devotions of great figures in Literature who have obsessed him. He attempts not so much a reasoned critique or any attempt to categorize these figures but rather, as he describes in the Preface: "to give [himself] up, absolutely and completely, to the various visions and temperaments of these great dead artists." Powys delivered popular lectures throughout the United States and was able to hold audiences in rapt attention for hours while speaking about great literature and writers, this book from the earlier part of his writing career gives us a little glimpse into what those lectures must have been like. Less

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John Cowper Powys

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John Cowper Powys (8 Oct 1872 – 17 June 1963) was a British philosopher, lecturer, novelist, literary critic, and poet. Although Powys published a collection of poems in 1896 and his first novel in...

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