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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
Kim Hoon
Kim Hoon (born 1948)

journalist, essayist, literary critic

  • Korea University
Yury Tynyanov
Yury Tynyanov (1894-1943)

translator, literary critic, poet, playwright, literary scholar, critic

  • Saint Petersburg State University
Young Pushkin
Lieutenant Kije Young Vitushishnikov (Eridanos Library, No. 20)
Ki͡ukhli͡a
Death and diplomacy in Persia
Problema stikhotvornogo i͡azyka
Sekondeleutnant Saber.  Die Wachsperson.  Der minderjährige W
Literaturnai͡a ėvoli͡ut͡sii͡a
Poėtika, istorii͡a literatury, kino
Sochinenii͡a v trekh tomakh
Literaturnyĭ fakt
Izbrannye proizvedenii͡a
Maloletnyĭ Vitushishnikov
Sochinenii͡a
Arkhaisty i novatory
Pushkin
Smertʹ Vazir-Mukhtara
Pushkin
Pushkin i ego sovremenniki
Podporuchik Kizhe
Dostoevskii i Gogol'
La Mort du Vazir-Moukhtar
Lieutenant Kijé ; Young Vitushishnikov
The Problem of Verse Language
Izbrannoe
Avanguardia e tradizione
Pushkin i ego sovremenniki
Sochineniya v trekh tomakh
Smert' Vazir-Mukhtara
Ki︠u︡khli︠a︡
Pushkin
K︠i︡ukhl︠i︡a ; Smertʹ Vazir-Mukhtara
Problema stikhotvornogo i︠a︡zyka
Blok i Geĭne
Problema stikhotvornogo siazyka =
Mnimai︠a︡ poėzii︠a︡
Problema stikhotvornogo yazyka
Podporuchik Kizhe
Sochineniya v dvukh tomakh
Poetika-istoriya literatury-kino
Russkai︠a︡ poėzii︠a︡ XIX veka
Problema stikhotvornogo i︠a︡zyka
Sochinenii︠a︡ v trekh tomakh
Felʹeton
Sochineni︠i︡a v dvukh tomakh
I︠U︡riĭ Tyni︠a︡nov, pisatel' i uchenyĭ
Rasskazy
Zhiznʹ i tvorchestvo Kornei︠a︡ Chukovskogo
Izbrannye proizvedenii︠a︡
[Problema stikohtvornogo i︠a︡zyka. (romanized form)]
Zhiznʹ i tvorchestvo Kornei︠a︡ Chukovskogo
Voskovai︠a︡ persona
Izbrannye proizvedeniya
Kyukhlya
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
Salvador de Madariaga
Salvador de Madariaga (1886-1978)

diplomat, historian, biographer, essayist, poet, engineer, opinion journalist, literary critic, politician, journalist, academic

  • Lycée Chaptal, École polytechnique
El corazón de piedra verde
Bolívar
The fall of the Spanish American empire
Americans
Guía del lector del "Quijote."
El crimen fue en Granada
Christopher Columbus
Disarmament
Englishmen, Frenchmen, Spaniards
Latin America between the eagle and the bear
Shelley & Calderón
Retrato de un hombre de pie
España
Ensayos anglo-españoles
Vida del muy magnífico señor don Cristóbal Colón
The rise of the Spanish American empire
Cuadro histórico de las Indias
Españoles de mi tiempo
Memorias, 1921-1936
Portrait of Europe
Guerra en la sangre ; Una gota de tiempo
The genius of Spain
Anarchy or hierarchy
Carácter y destino en Europa
Don Juan y La Don-Juanía
Englishmen, Frenchmen, Spaniards
"Don Quixote"
The heart of jade
Anarquía o jerarquía
El corazón de piedra verde
Mujeres españolas
Spanish folk songs
The sacred giraffe
El toisón de oro, y tres obras más
Arceval y los ingleses
Obra poética
Dios y los españoles
Esquiveles y Manriques
Cuando estalle la paz
The blowing up of the Parthenon
Victors beware
The world's design
Mi respuesta
First principles
Essays with a purpose
Vida Del Muy Magnifico Señor Don Cristobal Colon/life of the Magnificant Man Christopher Columbus
Aims and methods of a chair of Spanish studies
Herman Cortès
La guerra desde Londres
G. B. S
Morning without noon: memoirs
El semental negro ; Satanael
Adult interests, (Studies in adult education)
Democracy versus liberty?
Charles Quint ..
Ingleses, franceses, españoles
Memorias de un federalista
Charles Quint
Salvador de Madariaga
L' essor de l'empire espagnol d'Amérique
Theory and practice in international relations
Semblanzas literarias contemporáneas
War in the blood
Bosquejo de Europa
Guia del lector del "Quijote"
De la angustia a la libertad
Mujeres españoles
Cosas y gentes
Una Gota De Tiempo (38080)
Homenaje a Gabriela Mistral
El Corazon De Piedra Verde/ the Green Stone Heart
Anarquía o jerarquía
El Corazon De Piedra Verde
Rettet die Freiheit!
A la orilla del río de los sucesos
Elysian Fields
De Galdo s a Lorca
Bolivar
De l'angoisse à la liberté
Elysian Fields A Dialogue
On freedom
Spanien
Presente y porvenir de Hispanoame rica, y otros ensayos
Elegía en la muerte de Unamuno
General, márchese usted
El enemigo de Dios
The price of peace
Sir Bob
Rosa de cieno y ceniza
On Hamlet
Nature of Liberty
The anatomy of the cold war
The Rise of the Spanish American Empire - The Fall of the Spanish American Empir
The rise of the Spanish American empire (Free Press paperback)
Perfil de España
Historical Guide to World War II
El corazón de piedra verde II
Latin America Between The Eagle and The Bear
La fuente serena
Über die Freiheit
Romances de ciego
Essor de lèmpire espagnol dÀmerique
Obras escogidas
Guía del lector del "Quijote", ensayo psicoĺ3gico sobre el "Quijote"
Weltpolitisches Kaleidoskop; Reden und Aufsätze
Don Juan y la Don-Jaunía
El auge del imperio español en América
El ocaso del Imperio Español en América
War in the blood
Portrait de l'Europe (Portrait of Europe)
Elegía en la muerte de Federico Garcia Lorca
Campos eliseos
L' Amerique latine entre l'ours et l'aigle
El semental Negro
Guia Del Lector Del " Quijote "
Spain and the Jews
Vida del Muy Magnifico Senor Don Cristobal Colon
Don Quixote (Oxford paperbacks)
La formación profesional de los trabajadores ..
Christophe Colomb
El ciclo hispánico
El Corazon De Piedra Verde I (Nueva Austral Ser Vol, 55)
Discursos internacionales
Genius of Spain, and Other Essays on Spanish Contemporary Literature (Essay Index Reprint)
La mappe monde et le pape monde
HernGan CortGes, conqueror of Mexico
Christopher Columbus Being The Life Of The Very Magnificent Lord Don Cristobal Colon
Selecciones de Madariaga
El ocaso del Imperio Espaõl en América
Guia De Lectura Del Quijote (Austral)
Ingleses, Franceses, Españoles
!Ojo, vencedores!
Teatro en prosa y verso
The blowing up of the Parthenon
Diálogos famosos
Portrat Europas
Sanco Panco
Hernán Cortés, conqueror of Mexico
Christopher Columbus
Elysian fields
The Heart of Jade
Una gota de tiempo
Portrait Of Europe, New Edition Copyright Salvador De Madariaga 1967, Printed In Great Britain For Hollis & Carter Ltd., By Lowe & Brydone (Printers) Ltd., London
The sword and the spirit
El Corazon de Piedra Verde [Tercera Parte]
De Colo n a Boli var
BolGivar
Selecciones de Madariaga
Anarquia o jerarquia
El corazón de piedra verde I
Los tres estudiantes de Salamanca
Anarchie oder Hierarchie
El ciclo hispánico
El semental negro
Vida del muy magnífico señor don Cristóbal Colón
Guerra en la sangre
Don Quixote
A Bunch of Errors
Carlos V
Novelas de nuestro tiempo
Bolívar
El corazón de piedra verde
Yo-yo y yo-él
Ensayos anglo-espanoles
Una gota de tiempo
Quatre Espagnols à Londres
La jirafa sagrada
El auge y el ocaso del imperio español en América
La cruz y la bandera, y Las tres carabelas
Aims & methods of a chair of Spanish studies
Vida del muy magnífico señor don Cristóbal Colón
Memorias, 1921-1936
Portrait of a man standing
Hernán Cortéz, conqueror of Mexico
La jirafa sagrada
Ramo de errores
Ingleses, franceses, españoles
The genius of Spain
El sol, la luna y las estrellas
De la angustia a la libertad
Bat ha-Atsṭeḳim
Anglais, Franc ʹais, Espagnols
Poesía
La camarada Ana
Rettet die Freiheit!
Guía del lector del "Quijote"
Mudrooroo
Mudrooroo (1938-2019)

poet, literary critic

The promised land
Wild cat falling
Doctor Wooreddy's prescription for enduring the ending of the world
Indigenous literature of Australia =
Master of the ghost dreaming
The garden of Gethsemane
The kwinkan
Long live Sandawara
Us mob
Doctor Wooreddy's prescription for enduring the ending of the world
Writing from the fringe
Underground
Pacific highway boo-blooz
Wildcat screaming
Dalwura, the black bittern
Doin Wildcat
Aboriginal mythology
Le Maître du rêve-fantôme
Wild Cat Falling
Aboriginal Mythology
The undying
Flug in die Traumzeit
John Neal
John Neal (1793-1876)

literary critic, journalist, poet, art historian

Rachel Dyer
The Down-Easters
The Token and Atlantic Souvenir
Great mysteries and little plagues
The Down-Easters Volume 1
The Down-Easters Volume 2
Rachel Dyer: a North American story
The Down-Easters Volume 2
Portland illustrated
The Down-Easters Volume 1
Wandering recollections of a somewhat busy life
The genius of John Neal
Battle of Niagara
Account of the great conflagration in Portland
Seventy-six, or, Love and battle
Letters to Edgar A. Poe
Brother Jonathan: Or, The New Englanders
Authorship: A Tale
Otho; a tragedy, in five acts
Observations on American art
Randolph : a novel / by the author of Logan and Seventy-six
American writers
Otho
Battle of Niagara: A Poem, Without Notes : and Goldau, Or, The Maniac Harper
Logan, the Mingo chief
An address before the Maine Charitable Mechanic Association, September 26, 1838
Log of the Mahina
Keep cool
Logan
Seventy-six
The Down-Easters, &c. &c. &c
Account of the great conflagration in Portland, July 4th, & 5th, 1866
Man
Brother Jonathan
Address delivered before the Portland Association for the Promotion of Temperance February 11, 1829
Instincts of childhood
Logan
Authorship
Oration
Seventy-six
Randolph
John Neal to Edgar A. Poe
Our country
Little Moccasin, or, Along the Madawaska
Duty and safety of emancipation
Errata, or, The works of Will Adams
Brother Jonathan, or, The New Englanders
The mysterious artist
Rachel Dyer (1828)  A facsimile reproduction with an introd. by John D. Seelye
True womanhood
Pentrich Revolution and incidents of the trials of Brandreth, Ludlam, Turner and Weightman in the year 1817
Rachel Dyer (1828)
One word more
Ola Larsmo
Ola Larsmo (born 1957)

literary critic

  • Uppsala University