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...because it "means too much to too many people," the following by William Cowper was included: There is a fountain filled with blood Drawn from Immanuel's veins; And sinners,plunged beneath that flood, Lose all their guilty stains...
...Cowper Madonna is another Raphael less well known than the Alba but considered by many a critic to be a superior work of art. Lord Duveen of Millbank bought it from Lady Desborough for $800,000 for Mr. Mellon...
AUTOBIOGRAPHY-John Cowper Powys- Simon & Schuster...
Since the world began, few men have thought or written so much about their precious selves as John Cowper Powys. If it were not for the personal pronoun and the exclamation point he would be tongue-tied. A more unabashed egotist than most authors, he gave his ego a field day last week by publishing a grotesque 595-page autobiography. Whether or not the mirror he holds up to himself is distorted, most readers will agree that the image it reflects is a little cracked. Author Powys admits: "I know, and I daresay my reader will willingly bear...
Eldest of eleven children of an English country parson, apparently a solid character, John Cowper Powys was erratic from the start. From early childhood, he says, his life was dominated by a besetting neurotic sin. He calls it sadism but from the many examples he gives it sounds more like the peeping passion. As a young man he used to make trips to Brighton for the sole purpose of looking at girls' legs as they lay on the beach. For years he periodically bought and feverishly devoured armfuls of French pornographic books. When he first went to Manhattan, penny...