Powys’ first published work, financed by his father and issued in 1896 at 3/6.
Issued in a light green cloth with front cover gold stamped with fleurs-de-lis and webbing between the flowers. My own copy shows off this gold stamping in pristine as-new condition. There is no title on the spine.
Opening with ‘To the Great God Pan’, Powys was in tune with the times, dedicating his pagan work to the occult from the outset, predating Aleister Crowley’s own ‘Hymn to Pan’ by 17 years.
Apart from his own obvious influence on others, Powys reveals the influence upon himself of Algernon Charles Swinburne in this volume. This is most direct of course in ‘To A. C. Swinburne’, but also in other poems more obliquely, especially ‘Ode to Proserpine’.
The book.
John Cowper Powys, Odes and Other Poems, London, William Rider and Son Ltd., 1896.
Issued in a light green cloth with front cover gold stamped with fleurs-de-lis and webbing between the flowers. My own copy shows off this gold stamping in pristine as-new condition. There is no title on the spine.
Opening with ‘To the Great God Pan’, Powys was in tune with the times, dedicating his pagan work to the occult from the outset, predating Aleister Crowley’s own ‘Hymn to Pan’ by 17 years.
Apart from his own obvious influence on others, Powys reveals the influence upon himself of Algernon Charles Swinburne in this volume. This is most direct of course in ‘To A. C. Swinburne’, but also in other poems more obliquely, especially ‘Ode to Proserpine’.
The book.
John Cowper Powys, Odes and Other Poems, London, William Rider and Son Ltd., 1896.
