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John Cowper Powys
John Cowper Powys (1872-1963)

poet, philosopher, literary critic

  • University of Cambridge, Sherborne School
Owen Glendower
Porius
Morwyn
After My Fashion
Rodmoor
A Glastonbury Romance
Wolf Solent
Maiden Castle
Weymouth Sands
The Meaning of Culture
Visions and revisions
The Brazen Head
Wood and Stone
The Art of Happiness
The complex vision
Atlantis
Homer and the Aether
The letters of John Cowper Powys to Hal W. and Violet Trovillion
Autobiography
Confessions of two brothers, John Cowper Powys [and] Llewellyn Powys
Suspended judgments
Mortal strife
One hundred Dante books
Samphire
Mandragora
Ducdame
Three fantasies
Dostoevsky
Letters from John Cowper Powys to Glyn Hughes
Les sables de la mer
The pleasures of literature
The diary of John Cowper Powys 1931
Essays On De Gourmont And Byron
One hundred best books, with commentary and an essay on books and reading
John Cowper Powys letter, 1937-54
Odes and Other Poems
In defense of sensuality
Essays on de Maupassant, Anatole France, William Blake
Romer Mowl and other stories
Up and Out
The letters of John Cowper Powys to Ichiro Hara
The letters of John Cowper Powys to G.R. Wilson Knight
The letters of John Cowper Powys to Philippa Powys
La fosse aux chiens
The diary of John Cowper Powys, 1930
Rabelais, his life
The letters of John Cowper Powys to Frances Gregg
John Keats, or, Popular paganism
The art of growing old
The Dorset year
The diary of John Cowper Powys
Wolf's-Bane
Powys on Keats
The Inmates
All or Nothing
The letters of John Cowper Powys to Sven-Erik Täckmark
Les enchantements de Glastonbury
In spite of
The war and culture
Dorothy M. Richardson
Letters of John Cowper Powys to his brother Llewellyn
An Englishman up-state
Real Wraiths
Letters from John Cowper Powys to Clifford Tolchard
A philosophy of solitude
The letters of John Cowper Powys to Frank Warren
The letters of John Cowper Powys and Dorothy Richardson
Jobber Skald
Letters to Henry Miller
The religion of a sceptic
John Cowper Powys
Psychoanalysis and morality
The diary of John Cowper Powys for 1929
Granit
Obstinate Cymric
Paddock calls
Letters from John Cowper Powys to C. Benson Roberts
100 Best Books
Letters of John Cowper Powys to Louis Wilkinson, 1935-1956
Poems 1899
Rabelais : His life
Suspended judgments, essays on books and sensations
The pleasures of literature;
Owen Glendower T1 Les tours de Mathrafal
John Cowper Powys
Wolf's-Bane Rhymes
Den Otidsenlige och den aktuelle
Brazen Head
Letters to His Brother Llewellyn Volume I (1975)
Poems
John Cowper Powys Autobiography
LES ENCHANTEMENTS DE GLASTONBURY (DU MONDE ENTIER)
Samphire
Visions and Revisions; a Book of Literary Devotions
Powys and Lord Jim
V & a Style Calendar 2006
Complex Vision
John Cowper Powys on vivisection in "Autobiography."
Wolf Solent
Confessions of Two Brothers, John Cowper Powys [and] Llewellyn Powys
Syllabus of a course of six lectures on English novelists
Dostoievsky
John Cowper Powys on Thomas Hardy
Anna Antonovska
Anna Antonovska (1885-1967)

poet, literary critic

Kim Hoon
Kim Hoon (born 1948)

journalist, essayist, literary critic

  • Korea University
Jaroslav Durych
Jaroslav Durych (1886-1962)

translator, poet, journalist, physician, playwright, critic, opinion journalist, literary theorist, dramaturge, essayist

  • Charles University
Gottes Regenbogen
Z ráje i očistce
Plíz̆ení a pouti
Boží duha
Římská cesta
Pout do Španělska
The descent of the idol
Papežové a císaři
Z růže kvítek vykvet nám
Kdybych--
Gotická růže
Tři dukáty
Plížení a pouti
Panenky
Hadí květy
Jaroslav Durych
Obrazy
Básně
Bůh slyší dobře ; Buď vůle tvá ; O osmeru
Masopust
Rytmus české prózy
Světlo ve tmách
Bloudění
Svatý Vojtěch
Kouzelná lampa
Děti
Kněz a baba
Essaye
U hrobu Jiřího Wolkera
Jarmark života
Svatý Jiří
Spisy
Rekviem
Sedmikráska
Polemiky a skandály
Ohně v mlhách
Eseje o umění
Kouzelný kočár
Zastavení
Ŏhně v mlhách
Na horách
Svatý Václav
Kurýr
Bezkydy
Píseň o růži
Cestou domů
Žebrácké písně
Tři cesty Evropou
Paní Anežka Berková
Duše a hvězda
Duše Podkarpatské Rusi
Nejvyšši naděje
Tam
Služebníci neužiteční
Osamělé květy
Okamžiky z válécných let
The descent of the idol
Hrob Jiřího Wolkera
Listy drahým
Friedland
Té nejkrásnější
Bloudění
Tři troníčky
Váhy života a uměni
Píseň o růži
Vzpomínky z mládí
Kouzelná lampa
Na horách
Paní Anežka Berková
Sedmikráska
Bloudění
Zdrávas, Královno!
Balady
Rekviem
Boží duha
Hadi květy
Requiem
Z růže kvítek vykvet nám
Masopust
Svatý Vojtěch
Píseň o růži
Žebrácké písně
Plížení Německem
Essaye
Jean-François Marmontel
Jean-François Marmontel (1723-1799)

philosopher, politician, journalist, poet, historian, playwright, librettist, literary critic, encyclopédistes

Memoirs of Marmontel
Poetique françoise
Poetique françoise
Contes moraux
Les Incas
Moral tales
Belisaire
Bélisaire
Incas
Poetique françoise
Mémoires de Marmontel
Marmontel's moral tales
Select translations and imitations from the French of Marmontell [!] and Gresset
Mémoires
Memorie sulla vita del signor G. Francesco Marmontel
Œuvres complètes de Marmontel
Eléments de littérature
Memorie sulla vita del signor G. Francesco Marmontel
Déjeuners du village
Contes moraux
Les Incas, ou, la destruction de le̓mpire du Pérou
Memorie sulla vita del signor G. Francesco Marmontel
Bélisaire
Contes moraux
Silvain
Les Incas
Éléments de littérature
The shepherdess of the Alps
Memoires de Marmontel
The Incas, or, The destruction of the empire of Peru
Classic tales, serious and lively
La neuvaine du Cythère
The history of Belisarius, the heroick and humane Roman general
Memoirs of Marmontel
The Peruvian
Bélisaire
Epitre a Son Excellence M. l'abbé comte de Bernis, conseiller d'Etat, ambassadeur auprès de Leurs Majestés Impériales, sur la conduite respective de la France & de l'Angleterre
Moral Tales
Bélisaire: Fragments de philosophie morale
Les contes moraux
Correspondance ..
Les contes moraux
Mémoires de Marmontel : secrétaire perpétuel de l'Academie franc̜ais. / Précédés d'une introduction par m. F. Barrière
La bergère des Alpes
Le Huron
mémoires
Memoires de Marmontel
The misanthrope corrected
The widow of the village, or, The adventures of innocence
Moral tales, by M. Marmontel. Translated from the French. In two volumes. ... Cooke's edition. Embellished with superb engravings
Moral tales, by M. Marmontel
Denis le tyran
Mémoires de Marmontel, secrétaire perpétuel de l'Académie franc̜ais
Silvain
Contes moraux
Mémoires de Marmontel, secrétaire perpétuel de l'Académie français /précédés d'une introduction par m. F. Barrière
Suite de contes moraux
Le Huron
The specious friend, or, A wife of ten thousand
L' ami de la maison
Œuvres posthumes de Marmontel, historiographe de France, secrétaire perpétual de l'Académie française
Select moral tales
[Oeuvres choisies de Marmontel] ..
Élémens de littérature
Belisarius
La neuvaine de Cythère
Zophilette
Belisarius
Zemire et Azor
Sylvian
Marmontel
Marmontel et Polymnie
Éléments de littérature
Poétique françoise
Memoirs of Marmontel
Denis le tyran,: tragédie
Poetique françois
La fausse magie
Memoirs of Jean François Marmontel
Contes moraux
Zemire et azor, comedie en quatre actes et en vers, melee de chants
Les Incas
Montalde; or, The honest Breton
Aristomene
Selima & Azore
Bélisaire
Contes moraux
Oeuvres de monsieur Marmontel
Bélisaire
L'amitié à l'épreuve
Zemire et Azor
Nouveaux contes moraux
Pensées philosophiques, ou L'ame de monsieur de Marmontel
Memoirs of Marmontel, written by himself
Los Incas, ó, la destruccion del imperio del Perú
Oeuvres complettes de M. Marmontel, historiographe de France ..
Oeuvres complètes
Œuvres complettes de M. Marmontel
Belisarius. By M. Marmontel, ... To which are added, Fragments of moral philosophy, by the same author, in three essays, never before translated: I. Of glory. II. Of the great. III. Of grandeur
The Incas: or, The destruction of the empire of Peru
Belisarius. A tale. By M. Marmontel. ... Cooke's edition. Embellished with superb engravings
Roland
Trois contes moraux
Oeuvres complètes
Belisaire
Oeuvres complètes
Oeuvres complètes
Oeuvres complètes
Les Incas, ou, La destruction de l'empire du Pérou
Contes Moraux, T. 2
Bélisaire, et fragmens de philosophie morale
Oeuvres complètes
Poetique françoise
Bélisaire
Le Huron
Oeuvres complètes
Œuvres de Marmontel
Les Incas, ou, La destruction de l'empire du Pérou
Zemira e Azore
Contes moraux
Oeuvres complètes
Select translations and imitations from the French of Marmontell [sic] and Gresset
The widow of the village, or, Adventures of innocence
Tales translated from the French of M. Marmontel. Consisting of The village breakfasts, ... Vol.II
The Incas: or, The destruction of the empire of Peru
Zémire et Azore
Oeuvres complètes
Oeuvres complètes
Essai sur les romans
Le Huron
Œuvres posthumes
Memoirs
The moral tales of M. Marmontel. Translated from the French by C. Denis, and R. Lloyd, ..
Oeuvres complètes
Denis le Tyran
The widow of the village: or, The adventures of innocence
Les Incas, ou, La destruction de l'empire du Perou
Memoirs of Jean Francois Marmontel
Mémoires
Les Incas, ou, La destruction de l'empire du Pérou
Belisarius. By M. Marmontel, ... A new translation
Contes Moraux, T. 3
Oeuvres complètes
Bergère des Alpes
Oeuvres complètes
Contes moraux, T. 1
Oeuvres complètes
Annette et Lubin
Oeuvres complètes
Oeuvres complètes
Aristomène
Contes moraux et pièces choisies de M. Marmontel
Oeuvres complètes
Hervey Allen
Hervey Allen (1889-1949)

literary critic, poet, biographer, teacher

  • University of Pittsburgh, Shady Side Academy
The forest and the fort
Anthony Adverse
Israfel
Bedford Village
Toward the morning
Anthony Adverse
Anthony Adverse, Part 1
Toward the flame
The city in the dawn
Anthony Adverse.
Du Bose Heyward
It was like this
Christmas epithalamium
Anthony Adverse, Part 3
The blindman
Earth moods
Carolina Chansons
Action at Aquila
Carolina Chansons
New legends
The bride of Huitzil
Carolina chansons
Anthony Adverse, Part 2
Carolina Chansons, Legends of the Low Country
Israfel, the life and times of Edgar Allan Poe
Sarah Simon
Israfel
Toward the flame; a war diary
Wampum and old gold
Anthony Adverse
The sources of Anthony Adverse
Ballads of the border
Lute and Scimitar
Songs for Annette
Wampum and old gold
Du Bose Heyward
The forest and the fort
Israfel
Marcia Davenport
Marcia Davenport (1903-1996)

biographer, music critic, journalist, opinion journalist, musicologist

  • Wellesley College
Too strong for fantasy
Mozart
East Side, West Side
Of Lena Geyer
My Brother's Keeper
The valley of decision
Mozart
Too strong for fantasy
The valley of decision
East side, West side
The constant image
Garibaldi
Les frères Holt
Too Strong for Fantasy
The constant image
Lena Geyer
Jan
Le fleuve qui tout emporta
The constant image
ʻEmeḳ he-ḥaruts
Of Lena Geyer
Too strong for fantasy
Of Lena Geyer
Marcia Davenport papers
Darkah shel Lenah Gayʼer
Frederic Tuten
Frederic Tuten (born 1936)

journalist, film critic, essayist

  • City College of New York, New York University
Tintin in the New World
The Green Hour
Tallien
Van Gogh's Bad Cafe
The adventures of Mao on the long march
Dostoyevsky's Crime and punishment
Roy Lichtenstein bronze sculpture, 1976-1989
The Worlds of Joaquín Torres-García
Photographic Work of Robin Broadbent
TINTIN IN THE NEW WORLD
TALLIEN
Tallien. Ein Roman
Tintin en el nuevo mundo
Self Portraits
My Young Life
Autorretrato con toros =
Tintin in the New World. Frederic Tuten
ha-Ḥeṭ ṿe-ʻonsho
Tim und Struppi in der Neuen Welt
Autorretrato con toros =
Autoritratto con Sicilia
Uzun Yuruyus’te Mao’nun Maceralari
Bar at Twilight