[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
Preface | 9 |
Rabelais | 25 |
Dante | 35 |
Shakespeare | 55 |
El Greco | 75 |
Milton | 87 |
Charles Lamb | 105 |
Dickens | 119 |
Goethe | 135 |
Matthew Arnold | 153 |
Shelley | 169 |
Keats | 183 |
Nietzsche | 197 |
Thomas Hardy | 213 |
Walter Pater | 227 |
Dostoievsky | 241 |
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