List of the Works of John Cowper Powys

THE WORKS OF JOHN COWPER POWYS

POETRY

Poems
 LuciferWolf's Bane

Mandragora

Samphire

Horned Poppies: New Poems

Odes and Other Poems

LECTURES 

Visions and Revisions

One Hundred Best Books

Suspended Judgments

James Joyce's Ulysses, an appreciation

William Blake.

Dorothy M. Richardson

The Pleasures of Literature

Dostoievsky

Rabelais
 

PHILOSOPHY FOR LIVING

The Complex Vision
Psychoanalysis and Morality
The Religion of a Sceptic
The Secret of Self-Development
The Art of Forgetting the Unpleasant
The Meaning of Culture
Is Modern Marriage a Failure? A Debate [John Cowper Powys and Bertrand Russell]
In Defence of Sensuality
A Philosophy of Solitude
The Art of Happiness
Mortal Strife
The Art of Growing Old
Obstinate Cymric.
In Spite of: a Philosophy for Everyman 

 

THE NOVELS 

Wood and Stone

Rodmoor
After My Fashion
Ducdame

Wolf Solent
“The novel is a momentous piece of work . . . of transcendent interest and great beauty.” — The New York Times Book Review 

A Glastonbury Romance
Described as "the only novel produced by an English writer that can fairly be compared with the fictions of Tolstoy and Dostoyevski" by George Steiner in ‘The New Yorker’ and “The book of the century” by Margaret Drabble in ‘The Telegraph’. “A truly extraordinary novel. It stands out indeed in a most astonishing way from the great mass of present-day fiction: a very earthquake of a book, bewildering, if you like, shocking, even infuriating, yet incontestably great.... It is a big book, an important book.” — The Times

Weymouth Sands 
“It brings to mind the ... the romantic ferment of the film 'Les Enfants du Paradis' or ... one of the works of J.M.W. Turner.” — The Observer
 
Maiden Castle
  "His sense of encompassing nature and the living ever-present past, his power to convey curious states of mind, the beauty of his best writing, the exciting, erotic and cosmic scenes with which he alleviates his cosmic conceptions, could only come from a man possessed of superlative talent, genius, or (the word is inescapable with Powys) daemon.” — Times Literary Supplement

Owen Glendower 

Porius: A Romance of the Dark Ages
Writing in The New Yorker, George Steiner has said of the abridged Porius that it "combines [a] Shakespearean-epic sweep of historicity with a Jamesian finesse of psychological detail and acuity. Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!, which I believe to be the American masterpiece after Melville, is a smaller thing by comparison."

OTHER WORKS

The Owl, The Duck, and - Miss Rowe! Miss Rowe!
Morwyn, or, The Vengeance of God
The Inmates
Atlantis
The Brazen Head
Up and Out
Homer and the Aether
All or Nothing

AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL

Confessions of Two Brothers

An Englishman Upstate 

Autobiography
 “One of greatest 20th-century English novelists, John Cowper Powys is also the author of one of the greatest autobiographies ever written. Re-creating the lost worlds of late Victorian Dorset and early 20th-century America where he lived and worked, this mesmerisingly strange book shows Powys to be a kind of magical shape-shifter, eluding the reader - and perhaps himself - even as he engages the most reckless self-revelation.”  John Gray, author of Straw Dogs and Black Mass