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...outstanding poets (14th-19th Centuries), only two were "demonstrably" insane. The two: Cowper, who most of his life was subject to fits of melancholia and suicidal mania; and Swift, whose mind gave way in the last three years of his life...
...famed "John Gilpin" of Cheapside, England, whose wild ride was celebrated by Poet William Cowper...
...Cultural Arts department, author of Japanese Flower Arrangement for Modern Homes. Miss Preininger's classroom is a mellow harmony of overstuffed chairs, heavy draperies, floor lamps, vases of flowers. She wangled the expenses from the Los Angeles Board of Education after giving each member a copy of John Cowper Powys' The Meaning of Culture...
OWEN GLENDOWER - John Cowper Powys-Simon & Schuster...
...Welshman John Cowper Powys is concerned, it has that too. It is about Wales during the years 1400-1416. The title character is that subtle, flawed part-genius who led a Welsh-French army toward the London of Henry IV, and died a hermit. Its hero, a venturesome Oxford student named Rhisiart, is a young man with a "narrow skull . . . predatory beak and snatching lips." He becomes Owen's secretary, engulfs himself in an almost pathic loyalty-love for his boss, and has become an English Justice by the time Glendower dies...