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John Cowper Powys

Male : Writer & Novelist. Brother of Llewellyn & TF. Lectured widely in the United States 1904-34
Nationality : English Place of Birth : Shirley, Derbyshire

Date of Birth : 1872 Date of Death : 1963 Age : 91

Education : Sherborne & Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
19thC
Odes and Other Poems
(1896 Rider & Co)
Offered in 1999 for £350
Poems
(1899 Rider & Co)

1900-1920
The War and Culture
(1914 G A Shaw, NY)
Visions and Revisions : A Book of Literary Devotions
(1915 G A Shaw, NY)
Wood and Stone : A Romance
(1915 G A Shaw, NY)
Confessions of Two Brothers
(1916 Manas Press, NY) - with Llewellyn Powys
Wolf's-Bane : Rhymes
(1916 G A Shaw, NY)
One Hundred Best Books
(1916 G A Shaw, NY)
Rodmoor : A Romance
(1916 G A Shaw, NY)
Suspended Judgments
(1916 G A Shaw, NY)
Mandragora : Poems
(1917 G A Shaw, NY)
The Complex Vision
(1920 Dodd Mead, NY)

1921-1930
Samphire
(1922 T Seltzer, NY) - poems
The Art of Happiness
(1923 Haldeman-Julius)
Psychoanalysis and Morality
(1923 Jessica Colbert, US - 500) (1975 Village Press)
Ducdame
(1925 Grant Richards) (1926 Doubleday Page, NY)
The Religion of a Sceptic
(1925 Dodd Mead, NY)
The Secret of Self-Development
(1926 Haledman-Julius)
The Art of Forgetting the Unpleasant
(1928 Haledman-Julius)
Wolf Solent
(1929 Simon & Schuster) - 2 vols
The meaning of Culture
(1929 Norton, NY)
In Defense of Sensuality
(1930 Simon & Schuster)
Debate! Is Modern Marriage a Failure ?
(1930 Discussion Guild, NY)
The Owl, The Duck and - Miss Rowe! Miss Rowe!
(1930 Black Archer Press, NY) (1975 Village Press)

1931-1940
Dorothy M Richardson
(1931 Joiner & Steele, UK)
A Glastonbury Romance
(1932 Simon & Schuster) (1933 London)
A Philosophy of Solitude
(1933 S & S)
Autobiography
(1934 S & S)
Weymouth Sands
(1934 S & S)
Jobber Skald
(1935 Cape)
Maiden Castle
(1936 S & S) (1937 Cassell)
Morwyn or The Vengeance of God
(1937 Cassell)
Enjoyment of Literature
(1938 S & S)
The Pleasures of Literature
(1938 Cassell)
The Meaning of Culture
(1939 Norton)
Owen Glendower
(1940 S & S) (1941 London)

1941-1950
Mortal Strife
(1941 Cape)
The Art of growing Old
(1944 Cape)
Dostoievsky
(1946 John Lane)
Pair Dadeni or The Cauldron of Rebirth
(1946 Druid Press, Carmarthen)
Obstinate Cymric : Essays 1935-47
(1947 DP, Carmarthen)
Rabelais
(1948 John Lane)

1951-1960
Porius
(1951 Macdonald)
The Inmates : A Novel
(1952 Macdonald)
In Spite of : A Philosophy for Everyman
(1952 Macdonald)
Atlantis
(1954 Macdonald)
Visions and Revisions : A Book of Literary Devotions
(1955 Macdonald)
Lucifer : A Poem
(1956 Macdonald) - 560 signed. Agnes Miller Parker
The Brazen Head
(1956 Macdonald)
Up and Out
(1957 Macdonald)
The Letters of John Cowper Powys to Louis Wilkinson 1935-1956
(1958 Macdonald)
Homer and Aether
(1959 Macdonald)
All or Nothing
(1960 Macdonald)

After 1961
John Cowper Powys : A Selection from His Poems
(1964 Macdonald)
Letters to Nicholas Ross
(1971 Bertram Rota)
Real Wraiths
(1974 Village Press)
Two & Two
(1974 Village Press)
Letters to Henry Miller
(1975 Village Press)
Pyschoanalysis and Morality
(1975 Village Press)
The Religion of a Sceptic
(1975 Village Press)
Letters to His Brother Llewellyn 1902-1939
(1975 Village Press) - 2 vols
You and Me
(1975 Village Press)
After My Fashion
(1980 Picador pb) - previously unpublished

READING
L E Siberell : A Bibliography to the First Editions of J C Powys
(1934 Folcroft, Cincinnati) - intro by Powys
Louis Marlow : Welsh Ambassadors - Powys Lives & Letters
(1936 Chapman & Hall)
Derek Langridge : John Cowper Powys - A Record of Achievement
(1966 Library Assoc, London)
Roland Mathias : The Hollowed-Out Elder Stalk - John Cowper Powys as Poet
(1979 Enitharmon Press)

See also

Arthur, King : Fiction & Poetry
James Hanley
Traveller's Library, The