Word: cowper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...SELECTED LETTERS OF WILLIAM COWPER (306 pp.)-Edited by Mark Van Doren-Farrar, Straus & Young...
RABELAIS (424 pp.)-John Cowper Powys-Philosophical...
...studies of Rabelais, published almost simultaneously, come as a periodic reminder of a writer who was surpassed in his age only by Shakespeare and Cervantes. Rabelais, by ancient (78) English Novelist-Essayist John Cowper Powys, enfolds the jolly old cleric in a loose shirt of verbiage that he would surely have found too hairy for comfort; The Laughing Philosopher, by M. P. Willcocks, sometimes muffles the Rabelaisian laughter in a modesty he certainly never felt. Yet both books bring back a strong, winey breath of the most exuberant of writers from Aristophanes to Balzac; a man who drank life...