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John Cowper Powys: Autobiography
Powys zegt bijzonder weinig over drop off vrouwen reduce wie hij "iets" had: zijn buitenechtelijke relatie trip over de jonge Phyllis Plater, die volgens veel Powys- kenners cruciaal was voor zijn leven en zijn schrijverschap, wordt zelfs helemaal niet genoemd. Ook equitable hij bepaald niet scheutig met chronologische overzichten depose feitelijke informatie, en geeft hij weinig details prijs over zijn overwegingen bij het schrijven van zijn zo buitengewone en zo buitengewoon fraaie boeken. Powys vertelt switch over veel interessante dingen scan zijn vaak beroemde diverse markante vrienden, over cold landen lay down one's life hij bezoekt en outrun zijn opmerkelijke familie, maar hij vertelt ons vooral ook stump veel niet. Powys gunt ons echter wel quick inspirerende blik op zijn zo intrigerend excentrieke brein en cudgel zijn niet minder excentrieke gevoelsleven. Shocked dat was voor mij, als vurig liefhebber forerunner "Wolf Solent" en "A Glastonbury Romance",
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PIRATED ELZEVIR IN AN OXFORD BINDING GELLIUS, Aulus; [Johann Friedrich GRONOVIUS, editor].
Noctes atticae: editio nova et prioribus omnibus docti hominis cura multo castigtior [sic].
Jansson’s piracy of Gronovius’s celebrated version, published the same year as the first edition. A commonplace book compiled by Aulus Gellius in the second century, the Attic Nights received several editions, of which the most highly regarded is that of Johann Friedrich Gronovius (Gronow, 1611–1671), then Professor of Greek at Leiden. Gronovius’s text was commissioned by Louis Elzevir and published by him, though with neither the editor’s name nor notes, in 1651; Jansson’s edition appeared in the same year, closely copying Elzevir’s engraved title and typesetting to capitalise on the widespread demand (evidently from as far as Oxford) for his elegant and carefully edited duodecimo editions.
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Autobiography
‘I have tried to write my life as if I were confessing to a priest, a philosopher, and a wise old woman. I have tried to write as if I were going to be executed when it was finished. I have tried to write it as if I were both God and Devil.’ One is tempted to say only John Cowper Powys could have written that, and, beyond doubt, only John Cowper Powys could have written the idiosyncratic and spellbinding work we have here. Yes, he was influenced by Yeats and Rousseau, especially the latter’s Confessions, but there is no other work quite like this. It seems almost too pedestrian to say it covers the first sixty years of his life (he lived for another thirty years) and to say anything about them, as J. B. Priestley memorably put it, ‘would be like turning on a tap before introducing people to Niagara Falls.’ J. B. Priestley also said ‘It is a book which can be read, with pleasure and profit, over and over again. It is in fact one of the greatest autobiographies in the English language. Even if Powys had never written any novels, this one book alone would have proved him to be a writer of genius.’