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[Note:  I have made the following spelling changes:  intransigeantto intransigent, rythm of the secret to rhythm of the secret, accummulated toaccumulated, potentious and solemn to portentious and solemn, terrestial toterrestrial, Light-cormer to Light-comer, Aldeboran to Aldebaran, entercompetely to enter completely, aplomb and nonchalence to aplomb and nonchalance,Hyppolytus to Hippolytus, abyssmal to abysmal, appelations to appellations,intellectual predominence to intellectual predominance, deilberately outragingto deliberately outraging, pour vitrol to pour vitriol, Gethsamene toGethsemane, Sabacthani to Sabachthani, conscience-striken toconscience-stricken, abssymal gulfs to abysmal gulfs, rhymmic incantations torhythmic incantations, perpetual insistance to perpetual insistence, and water-cariersto water-carriers.  Next, I have also incorporated the errata listed at theend of the book into the text.  Finally, I have standardized all the poetryquotations with indentation and spacing which were not in the original text.]


VISIONS AND REVISIONS

A BOOK OF LITERARY DEVOTIONS


BY

JOHN COWPER POWYS
 

Ham.—Would not this, sir, and a forest of feathers—if  the rest of myfortunes turn Turk with me—
with two Provincial roses on my ras'd shoes, get me a fellowship in a cry ofplayers, sir?
Her.—Half a share.

 
1915
G. ARNOLD SHAW
NEW YORK

 

Copyright, 1915, by G. Arnold Shaw
Copyright in Great Britain and Colonies

 

First Printing, February, 1915
Second Printing, March, 1915
Third Printing, October, 1915
 

BROOKLYN EAGLE PRESS

 

To Those who love
     Without understanding;
To Those who understand
     Without loving;
     And to Those
Who, neither loving or understanding,
     Are the Cause
     Why Books are written.

 

CONTENTS


Preface9
Rabelais 25
Dante 35
Shakespeare 55
El Greco 75
Milton87
Charles Lamb105
Dickens119
Goethe135
Matthew Arnold153
Shelley169
Keats183
Nietzsche197
Thomas Hardy 213
Walter Pater 227
Dostoievsky 241
...

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