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Description:This volume brings together in one place, for the first time in English, the correspondence between these two great writers who both had such a profound influence on each other.PROTEUS AND THE MAGICIAN includes an introduction, by Jacqueline Peltier, notes, bibliography, index, photos and reproductions of original letters and dedications.When a young American, ‘a kid from Brooklyn’, enraptured by the world of words and books hears an English writer, the future author of Wolf Solent, A Glastonbury Romance and Autobiography, delivering unforgettable public lectures to all kinds of audiences throughout America, we may well imagine the powerful impact it had on a gifted young man, obsessed with the ambition to be a writer. This is exactly what happened to Henry Miller. Some time in the 1920s, after having listened to John Cowper Powys lecturing at the Labor Temple in New York, elated and fascinated, he wished to celebrate the great achievement of the writer he admired so much: that was when Powys entered the pantheon of Henry Miller's literary masters. Some thirty years later, Henry Miller, busy writing what would become The Books in My Life remembered the emotion he had felt while listening to Powys's lectures and suddenly decided to write to him. In the correspondence which followed, from 1950 to 1962, the reader will witness their profound understanding, their particular interests, often shared, their vivacious exchanges bearing essentially on books, those they wrote and those they read. Their letters are exciting to read and are also a passionate tribute to pure literature. How apt for Miller to have found the expression 'a living book', and to have applied this to John Cowper Powys, for it is an expression that could also easily refer to Henry Miller himself.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Proteus and the Magician: The Letters of Henry Miller and John Cowper Powys. To get started finding Proteus and the Magician: The Letters of Henry Miller and John Cowper Powys, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 160

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: The Powys Press

Release: 2014

ISBN: 1874559465

Description: This volume brings together in one place, for the first time in English, the correspondence between these two great writers who both had such a profound influence on each other.PROTEUS AND THE MAGICIAN includes an introduction, by Jacqueline Peltier, notes, bibliography, index, photos and reproductions of original letters and dedications.When a young American, ‘a kid from Brooklyn’, enraptured by the world of words and books hears an English writer, the future author of Wolf Solent, A Glastonbury Romance and Autobiography, delivering unforgettable public lectures to all kinds of audiences throughout America, we may well imagine the powerful impact it had on a gifted young man, obsessed with the ambition to be a writer. This is exactly what happened to Henry Miller. Some time in the 1920s, after having listened to John Cowper Powys lecturing at the Labor Temple in New York, elated and fascinated, he wished to celebrate the great achievement of the writer he admired so much: that was when Powys entered the pantheon of Henry Miller's literary masters. Some thirty years later, Henry Miller, busy writing what would become The Books in My Life remembered the emotion he had felt while listening to Powys's lectures and suddenly decided to write to him. In the correspondence which followed, from 1950 to 1962, the reader will witness their profound understanding, their particular interests, often shared, their vivacious exchanges bearing essentially on books, those they wrote and those they read. Their letters are exciting to read and are also a passionate tribute to pure literature. How apt for Miller to have found the expression 'a living book', and to have applied this to John Cowper Powys, for it is an expression that could also easily refer to Henry Miller himself.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Proteus and the Magician: The Letters of Henry Miller and John Cowper Powys. To get started finding Proteus and the Magician: The Letters of Henry Miller and John Cowper Powys, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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