John Cowper Powys is remembered for arguments the next generation could not ignore.
The record lists John Cowper Powys as British writer, lecturer and philosopher (1872-1963).
John Cowper Powys was born at Shirley in 1872. His recorded nationality is United Kingdom. He studied at Corpus Christi College and Sherborne School.
Around the turn of the twentieth century philosophy split into traditions that largely stopped reading one another.
Among his principal works are A Glastonbury Romance, Owen Glendower and Wolf Solent. A philosophical position survives not by being proved but by resisting every attempt to dispose of it.
That the work was done from United Kingdom matters: philosophical traditions, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
John Cowper Powys died in 1963, aged 91. The arguments remain in print, which is the form in which philosophy survives.
Achievements
- Notable work: A Glastonbury Romance
- Notable work: Owen Glendower
- Notable work: Wolf Solent
- Notable work: Porius: A Romance of the Dark Ages
