Powys, John Cowper, 1872-1963

LC control no.	n 78092876
Descriptive conventions	rda
LC classification	PR6031.O867
Personal name heading	Powys, John Cowper, 1872-1963 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Associated country	England
Associated place	United States
Birth date	1872-10-08
Death date	1963-06-17
Place of birth	Shirley (Derbyshire, England)
Place of death	Blaenau Ffestiniog (Wales)
Found in	His The war and culture ... 1914. Scènes de chasse en famille, 2003: title page (John Cowper Powys, Walf's Bane) page 2, cover (John Cowper Powys 1872-1963) Wikipedia, viewed Feb. 13, 2017 (John Cowper Powys, born October 8, 1872 in Shirley, Derbyshire, England; died June 17, 1963 in Blaenau Ffestiniog, Wales) was a English novelist, lecturer, philosopher, literary critic, and poet. Although Powys published a collection of poems in 1896 and his first novel in 1915, he did not gain success as a writer until he published the novel Wolf Solent in 1929. He was influenced by many writers, but he has been particularly seen as a successor to Thomas Hardy, and Wolf Solent, A Glastonbury Romance (1932), along with Weymouth Sands (1934) and Maiden Castle (1936), are often referred to as his Wessex novels. As with Hardy's novels, the landscape plays a major role in Powys's works, and an elemental philosophy is important in the lives of his characters. In 1934 he published his important Autobiography. Powys was also a highly successful itinerant lecturer, first in England and then from 1905 until the early 1930s in the USA)