Visions and Revisions (Barnes & Noble Digital Library): A Book of Literary Devotions

by John Cowper Powys

Overview

This 1915 collection of literary essays reflects the author's conviction that such essays should ideally convey to readers the impact of an author or work of fiction upon the critic: no more and no less.  The artists covered include Rabelais, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton, Dickens, Nietzsche, Hardy, Poe, and Whitman, among other greats.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781411451582
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble
Publication date:	04/19/2011
Series:	Barnes & Noble Digital Library
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	308
File size:	256 KB
Age Range:	3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

John Cowper Powys (1872-1963) was a prolific British novelist and critic.  He is best known today for the novels Wolf Solent (1929), A Glastonbury Romance (1932), and Owen Glendower (1940), as well as his Autobiography (1934).  An idiosyncratic writer, Powys drew on strains of Romanticism and the dour determinism of Hardy, adding a mysticism all his own.