Poems 1899

Kenneth Hopkins, in The Brothers Powys, wrote that the improvement in the poems of this volume might have been attributable to the influence of Alfed de Kantzow, an impoverished nobleman from Poland. ‘Mr de Kantzow was a poet of no small power’ comments Hopkins.

This volume was, like the first, published by Rider and Son with the financial help of his father and also this time of his cousin, Ralph Shirley.

My volume still has the tattered, but rare, remnants of the original tissue dust jacket, which has kept the gold stamped fleurs-de-lis on the front cover in pristine condition.

The book.

J. C. Powys, Poems, London, William Rider and Son Ltd., 1899.

© John Dunn.