John Cowper Powys

Another writer who walked in Sussex, John Cowper Powys, experienced similar moments of delirious happiness over a century ago, the simple ability to bear witness being "sufficient reward for having been born upon this cruelty-blasted planet!"

To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface by Olivia Laing – review 2011

According to him, in midcentury only "outsiders," John Cowper Powys, Simone Weil and Erich Auerbach, championed Homer.

An Exchange on Ezra Pound Reck, Michael 1986

John Cowper Powys was born in 1872 in Derbyshire, England, and died in 1963 in the small Welsh village of Blaenau Ffestiniog.

Life in the Head Bayley, John 1985

She discovered for herself what John Cowper Powys meant when he said, in The Art of Forgetting the Unpleasant: “A certain comfortable security, a certain profound inner peace, a kind of happy numbness, soothes the nerves of the human animal when absorbed in its allotted task.”

How to Stop Worrying and Start Living Dale Carnegie 1944

I must not omit an expression of my gratitude for the very high praise which John Cowper Powys bestowed on the Anthology just before it appeared in book form and the publicity which was given his lecture by the _New York Times_.

Toward the Gulf Edgar Lee Masters 1909

Fulford narrates the pictures with personal anecdotes, reflections on John Cowper Powys and text from William James's lectures on

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Fulford narrates the pictures with personal anecdotes, reflections on John Cowper Powys and text from William James's lectures on

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Fulford narrates the pictures with personal anecdotes, reflections on John Cowper Powys and text from William James's lectures on

NYT > Home & Garden 2010

Fulford narrates the pictures with personal anecdotes, reflections on John Cowper Powys and text from William James's lectures on

NYT > Art & Design 2010

Fulford narrates the pictures with personal anecdotes, reflections on John Cowper Powys and text from William James's lectures on

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