Visions and revisions : a book of literary devotions / by John Cowper Powys.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Powys, John Cowper, 1872-1963.

Contributor:

Sprague, Harriet Chapman Jones, 1876-1969, former owner.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Mrs. Frank Julian Sprague Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Walt Whitman Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Modern--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Penn Provenance:

Flaccus, Kimball, 1911-1972 (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Powys, John Cowper, 1872-1963 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Sprague, Harriet Chapman Jones, 1876-1969 (former owner) (Whitman Collection copy)

Physical Description:

298 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : G.A. Shaw ; London : W. Rider & Son, 1915.

Contents:

Preface

Rabelais

Dante

Shakespeare

El Greco

Milton

Charles Lamb

Dickens

Goethe

Matthew Arnold

Shelley

Keats

Nietzsche

Thomas Hardy

Walter Pater

Dostoievsky

Edgar Allen [!] Poe

Walt Whitman

Conclusion.

Notes:

With a half-title.

"Copyright, 1915, by G. Arnold Shaw."

Publisher's Announcement: [1] p. at end.

White cloth spine with five simulated raised bands. Blue Fabiano paper boards with Shaw's device stamped in dark blue just above the middle of the front cover. Top edge trimmed, other edges untrimmed.

"G. Arnold Shaw issued a small folder to publicize 'Visions and Revisions.' It was an 8 1/2 x 11 inch sheet folded into a 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 quarto pamphlet. The front cover contained the title and a description of 'Visions and Revisions,' a photographic portrait of John Cowper Powys and the publisher's address. The inner two pages contained the publisher's statement. The folder opens to its full extent revealing three columns and reprinting a complete article - two editorials anent John Cowper Powys and a review of 'The War and Culture'. ...--Cf. Thomas.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy inscribed to Kimball Flaccus with a quote from Iliad XIII by John Cowper Powys, Blaenau-Ffestiniog, N. Wales, April 17th, 1956.

Culture Class Collection copy has small folder to publicize 'Vision and Revisions' laid in.

Whitman Collection copy purchased by the Penn Libraries in 1944 from Mrs. Frank Julian Sprague.

Cited in:

Thomas, D. Bibl. of the writings of John Cowper Powys, A5

Other Format:

Online version: Powys, John Cowper, 1872-1963. Visions and revisions.

OCLC:

675250