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Visions and revisions; a book of literary devotions. / John Cowper Powys.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection EC9 P8756 915v 1955
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Powys, John Cowper, 1872-1963.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature, Modern--History and criticism.
- Literature, Modern.
- Genre:
- Essays.
- Penn Provenance:
- Flaccus, Kimball, 1911-1972 (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Powys, John Cowper, 1872-1963 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 221 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First English edition.
- Manufacture:
- Paulton (Somerset and London : Made and printed in Great Britain by Purnell and Sons, Ltd.)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Macdonald, [1955]
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Rabelais
- Dante
- Shakespeare
- El Greco
- Milton
- Charles Lamb
- Dickens
- Goethe
- Matthew Arnold
- Shelley
- Keats
- Nietzsche
- Thomas Hardy
- Walter Pater
- Dostoievsky
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Walt Whitman
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- With a half-title.
- "Dedicated to the memory of G. Arnold Shaw."
- "For this new edition Powys wrote a new introduction of 19 pages."--Cf. Thomas.
- Price from dust-jacket: 15/- net.
- Issued in pebbled blue cloth with author's facsimile signature stamped in gold on front cover; spine stamped in gold.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has dust-jacket retained.
- Culture Class Collection copy inscribed to Kimball Flaccus from John Cowper Powys, Nov. 9, 1955.
- Cited in:
- Thomas, D. Bibl. of the works of John Cowper Powys, A52
- OCLC:
- 1908417
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