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| Powys, John Cowper. Adm. pens. at CORPUS CHRISTI, Sept. 29, 1891. Of Derbyshire. S. of the Rev. C[harles] F[rancis] (1862), V. of Montacute, Somerset (and Mary Cowper Johnson). B. Oct. 8, 1872, at Shirley vicarage, Derbs. School, Sherborne. Matric. Michs. 1891; B.A. 1894; M.A. 1901. 'My three years at Cambridge,' he says in his Autobiography, 'were years of an unbalanced and chaotic idealism. I composed a weird prophetic denunciation entitled Corpus Unveiled. At Corpus I lost all fear of people: no Proctor ever had to pursue me; no Dean ever had to interview me. I slipped into the place, and I slipped out of the place, totally uninfluenced. But if I did not gain much from Cambridge I gained all the world from Cambridgeshire.' He sees himself as 'a vagabond play-actor wandering through the world with a Jew's harp under my Master of Arts gown'. and as 'a Cowperist, combining an extremely quick and mercurial intelligence with a lean, primordial, bony, gaunt, Neanderthal simplicity.' Author of numerous novels and of works on poetry, philosophy and criticism. Of Down Barn, East Chaldon, Dorchester, in 1951. Brother of Littleton C. (1893). (Sherborne Reg.; Who's Who.) | John Cowper POWYS Approx. lifespan: 1872–1963 pens. Corpus Christi College adm1891:09:29 Of Derbyshire , s. of Rev. C F (1862) V.: Montacute, Somerset , (and Mary Cowper Johnson) b. 1872:10:08 at Shirley vicarage, Derbyshire , Sch: Sherborne School Sherborne, [Dorset], Matric 1891:10MT: BA 1894 MA 1901 "My three years CB, ???, ," he says in his Autobiography, "were years of an unbalanced and chaotic idealism. I composed a weird prophetic denunciation entitled Corpus Unveiled . At Corpus I lost all fear of people: no Proctor ever had to pursue me; no Dean ever had to interview me. I slipped into the Place, and I slipped out of the Place, totally uninfluenced. But if I did not gain much from CB, ???, I gained all the world from CB, ???, ." He sees himself as "a vagabond play-actor wandering through the world with a Jew's harp under my Master of: : Arts gown". and as "a Cowperist, combining an extremely quick and mercurial intelligence with a lean, primordial, bony, gaunt, Neanderthal simplicity." Author of numerous novels and of works on poetry, philosophy and criticism. Of Down Barn, East Chaldon, Dorchester, [Dorset], in1951 brother of Littleton C. POWYS (1893) ( Sherborne Reg.; Who's Who .) [add:] d. 1963:06:17 [:add] [add:]WWW[:add] |