The long awaited biography of John Cowper Powys, Descents of Memory by Morine Krissdottir, has just been released by The Overlook Press. This landmark work provides fascinating new details of the life of Powys, including his relationship with Phyllis Planter, the daughter of a Missouri businessman who was the writer's companion from 1923 until his death. The book also explores the life of Powys as an itinerant lecturer - he spent 25 years in America, touring the country, drawing enormous crowds to his public speeches. In today's review of the new biography in the New York Sun, Oxford Professor Paul Dean writes: "Powys was a spellbinding platform orator - at the end of one two-hour discourse on Hardy, a crowd of two thousand people rose to its feet, roaring for more . . ."
Wednesday, October 03, 2007
John Cowper Powys: The Glastonbury Romanticist
The long awaited biography of John Cowper Powys, Descents of Memory by Morine Krissdottir, has just been released by The Overlook Press. This landmark work provides fascinating new details of the life of Powys, including his relationship with Phyllis Planter, the daughter of a Missouri businessman who was the writer's companion from 1923 until his death. The book also explores the life of Powys as an itinerant lecturer - he spent 25 years in America, touring the country, drawing enormous crowds to his public speeches. In today's review of the new biography in the New York Sun, Oxford Professor Paul Dean writes: "Powys was a spellbinding platform orator - at the end of one two-hour discourse on Hardy, a crowd of two thousand people rose to its feet, roaring for more . . ."
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Oxford professor Paul Dean?
The Dragon School is a prep school (see www.dragonschool.org), not part of Oxford University.
It is just located in the city Oxford.
He's basicaly a high school English teacher....
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