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拍品 303
John Cowper Powys (1872-1963)
Seven autograph letters signed (‘John Cowper Powys’, ‘J.C.P’, ‘Jack’, and ‘Jack the Ripper’) and one unsigned to Reginald Pole, Cae Coed, Corwen, Merionethshire, January 1946-10 May 1948
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John Cowper Powys (1872-1963)
Seven autograph letters signed (‘John Cowper Powys’, ‘J.C.P’, ‘Jack’, and ‘Jack the Ripper’) and one unsigned to Reginald Pole, Cae Coed, Corwen, Merionethshire, January 1946-10 May 1948
38 pages in total, various sizes, with extensive notes and insertions in the margins. [With:] two different typescript introductions for the novels for presentation to the publishers written by Powys. Provenance: Sotheby's New York, 6 May 1981, lot 102.
‘I’ve had a regular whirlpool of contradictory old-time, mid-time, new-time, any-time, out of time reactions to this Remarkable Work of yours’: letters on literary subjects, focusing principally on a series of autobiographical novels written by Pole. The novels, entitled Westward Saga, are compared to Proust as well as Romain Rolland’s Jean-Christophe novels. Powys offers praise, criticism and advice as well as practical suggestions about finding a publisher: ‘you have chosen – because of reasons unknown to me – but probably inherent involved & intrinsic, in Reginald’s life character & genius – to combine the autobiographical with the novelistic and though I can of course only speak for myself this combination of autobiography & novel has a tendency to “soft-pedal”, as you might say, my eager primitive simple unsophisticated thrill as a lover of a story’. Elsewhere, his praise continues: ‘and to numb, drug and anaesthetize … a little, my intense and lively and almost wicked curiosity about the secret virtues and secret sins and hidden Dostoevskyish lapses of Reginald his very self!’.
Seven autograph letters signed (‘John Cowper Powys’, ‘J.C.P’, ‘Jack’, and ‘Jack the Ripper’) and one unsigned to Reginald Pole, Cae Coed, Corwen, Merionethshire, January 1946-10 May 1948
38 pages in total, various sizes, with extensive notes and insertions in the margins. [With:] two different typescript introductions for the novels for presentation to the publishers written by Powys. Provenance: Sotheby's New York, 6 May 1981, lot 102.
‘I’ve had a regular whirlpool of contradictory old-time, mid-time, new-time, any-time, out of time reactions to this Remarkable Work of yours’: letters on literary subjects, focusing principally on a series of autobiographical novels written by Pole. The novels, entitled Westward Saga, are compared to Proust as well as Romain Rolland’s Jean-Christophe novels. Powys offers praise, criticism and advice as well as practical suggestions about finding a publisher: ‘you have chosen – because of reasons unknown to me – but probably inherent involved & intrinsic, in Reginald’s life character & genius – to combine the autobiographical with the novelistic and though I can of course only speak for myself this combination of autobiography & novel has a tendency to “soft-pedal”, as you might say, my eager primitive simple unsophisticated thrill as a lover of a story’. Elsewhere, his praise continues: ‘and to numb, drug and anaesthetize … a little, my intense and lively and almost wicked curiosity about the secret virtues and secret sins and hidden Dostoevskyish lapses of Reginald his very self!’.
John Cowper Powys (1872-1963)
Seven autograph letters signed (‘John Cowper Powys’, ‘J.C.P’, ‘Jack’, and ‘Jack the Ripper’) and one unsigned to Reginald Pole, Cae Coed, Corwen, Merionethshire, January 1946-10 May 1948
38 pages in total, various sizes, with extensive notes and insertions in the margins. [With:] two different typescript introductions for the novels for presentation to the publishers written by Powys. Provenance: Sotheby's New York, 6 May 1981, lot 102.
‘I’ve had a regular whirlpool of contradictory old-time, mid-time, new-time, any-time, out of time reactions to this Remarkable Work of yours’: letters on literary subjects, focusing principally on a series of autobiographical novels written by Pole. The novels, entitled Westward Saga, are compared to Proust as well as Romain Rolland’s Jean-Christophe novels. Powys offers praise, criticism and advice as well as practical suggestions about finding a publisher: ‘you have chosen – because of reasons unknown to me – but probably inherent involved & intrinsic, in Reginald’s life character & genius – to combine the autobiographical with the novelistic and though I can of course only speak for myself this combination of autobiography & novel has a tendency to “soft-pedal”, as you might say, my eager primitive simple unsophisticated thrill as a lover of a story’. Elsewhere, his praise continues: ‘and to numb, drug and anaesthetize … a little, my intense and lively and almost wicked curiosity about the secret virtues and secret sins and hidden Dostoevskyish lapses of Reginald his very self!’.
Seven autograph letters signed (‘John Cowper Powys’, ‘J.C.P’, ‘Jack’, and ‘Jack the Ripper’) and one unsigned to Reginald Pole, Cae Coed, Corwen, Merionethshire, January 1946-10 May 1948
38 pages in total, various sizes, with extensive notes and insertions in the margins. [With:] two different typescript introductions for the novels for presentation to the publishers written by Powys. Provenance: Sotheby's New York, 6 May 1981, lot 102.
‘I’ve had a regular whirlpool of contradictory old-time, mid-time, new-time, any-time, out of time reactions to this Remarkable Work of yours’: letters on literary subjects, focusing principally on a series of autobiographical novels written by Pole. The novels, entitled Westward Saga, are compared to Proust as well as Romain Rolland’s Jean-Christophe novels. Powys offers praise, criticism and advice as well as practical suggestions about finding a publisher: ‘you have chosen – because of reasons unknown to me – but probably inherent involved & intrinsic, in Reginald’s life character & genius – to combine the autobiographical with the novelistic and though I can of course only speak for myself this combination of autobiography & novel has a tendency to “soft-pedal”, as you might say, my eager primitive simple unsophisticated thrill as a lover of a story’. Elsewhere, his praise continues: ‘and to numb, drug and anaesthetize … a little, my intense and lively and almost wicked curiosity about the secret virtues and secret sins and hidden Dostoevskyish lapses of Reginald his very self!’.