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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Powys, John Cowper, 1872-1963.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

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