JOHN COWPER POWYS – REVIEWS OF HIS BOOKS
[BISSELL GIFT]
Note: This is a miscellaneous collection and has not been completely inventoried. There are a number of sleeves containing reviews which have lists inside but not on computer. Note: Feather did not collect reviews of JCP’s books. ------
Autobiography
American Edition of Autobiography New York Times 1934 x 2 Saturday Review of Literature 1934
English Edition of Autobiography Books of Moment 1934 John o’London’s Weekly 1934 Daily Mail 1934 The Times 1934 + three reviews unknown 1934 Daily Telegraph 1934
Etranger (with letter to Phyllis Playter) 1965 L’Express 1965 Nouveau Candide 1965 Tribune des Nations 1965 Gallimard’s French Ed. Le Monde 1965 La Metropole 1965 + one unknown 1965 Chronique des Livres 1966 The Times (+ photocopy) 1981 Picador Edition A Study of Two ‘I’s’ by Michael Sadleir (?1934) publication unknown. An article comparing JCP and HG Wells’ autobiographies.
Letters to Louis Wilkinson 1958 Times Literary Supplement Sunday Times Daily Telegraph Southern Daily Echo Yorkshire Post Observer Time and Tide Catholic Herald The Times Herald and Express Eastern Daily Press Twentieth Century The Bookseller The Listener x 2 Manchester Guardian x 2 Publisher’s Circular x 2 1
JOHN COWPER POWYS – REVIEWS OF HIS BOOKS
Scotsman Liverpool Daily Post British Weekly South Wales Evening Post Books and Bookmen Western Mail Economist
The Inmates 1952 Unknown newspaper review +copy Unknown magazine review + copy Broadcast review by Radio Eireann + copy Punch + copy Syndicated Scottish review +copy
Givre et Sang: French Reviews 1973 Nouvelles Littéraires Le Figaro Magazine Littéraire Granit
Morwyn 1978 Le Monde photocopy
La Fosse aux Chiens 1958 Photocopy from unknown article
Letters to Nicholas Ross 1972 Times Literary Supplement
Rabelais 1948 John o’ London’s Weekly
A Philosophy of Solitude 1933 Week-End Review Supplement
Ducdame 1925 The Morning Post
Suspended Judgments 1923 Burrelle’s Press Clipping
The Art of Happiness 1935 The Saturday Review New York Herald
All Or Nothing 1960 Daily Telegraph Sunday Times
After My Fashion 1980 Observer Times Literary Supplement
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JOHN COWPER POWYS – REVIEWS OF HIS BOOKS
Porius 1951 The Listener x 3 Daily Graphic Illustrated London News John o’London’s Weekly The Queen Liverpool Daily Post Sunday Mercury Birmingham
Up and Out 1957 Southern Daily Echo New Statesman & Echo Daily Telegraph x 2 The Observer The Sunday Times x 2 TLS x 2 The Times Yorkshire Evening Press Manchester Guardian The Bulletin & Scots Pictorial Oxford Times Western Morning News Birmingham Post Books and Bookmen Scarborough Evening News The Listener Smith’s Trade News Belfast Telegraph Oxford Mail Daily Worker Birmingham Post Western Mail Glasgow Herald
Atlantis 1954 Manchester Guardian
Visions and Revisions 1955 The Observer TLS Manchester Guardian
Lodmoor 1977 Jacobs Sterge Swedish Magazine
Lucifer TLS 1955 The Twentieth Century 1956 - G Wilson Knight The Dublin Magazine 1957 - J Redwood Anderson
Misc. Reviews A Glastonbury Romance - The Bodleian1935 Philosophy of the Three Brothers - Derby Evening Telegraph 1935 Inmates JCP - Dark Leaves 1952 3
JOHN COWPER POWYS – REVIEWS OF HIS BOOKS
All or Nothing - TLS 1960 Selection of Works - Poesy 1964 The Camden Journal 1966 A Magician and His Multiverse 1974 Emma Goldman
Svendska Dagbladet 1977 Jakobs Stege 1980 Metamorfos - Sven Eric Tackwark 1990 Aftonbladet “ “ “ 1972
Diario de Lisboa 1973
French Review (title unknown) Post 1970 Le Monde - JCP Visionnaire du Chaos 1972 Le Monde - JCP Le Gallois 1973
Tiff Magazin Die Zeit
Wolf Solent New York Times Book Review 1929 Saturday Review of Literature 1929 TLS x 2 July 1961 “ October 1961 Sunday Times October 1961 The Times + photocopy 1976 Plus letter from G Wilson |Knight undated Les Lettres Nouvelles + photocopy 1968 La Quinzaine Litteraire x 3 1968
Ousdagen x 2 1976 Svenska Dagbladet 1977
NRC Handelsblad 1977 + letter from author of article
Press Cuttings - Hamburg Award 1958 Kulturspiegel I Wr Nodedig Liverpool Daily Post x 2 The Times x 2 East Anglish Daily Times Caernarvon And Denbigh Herald Yorkshire Post Daily Telegraph Evening News News Chronicle Western Mail South Wales Echo Evening Times Unidentified Welsh paper
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