{"product_id":"john-cowper-powys-and-the-afterlife-of-romanticism-re-imagining-william-wordsworth-and-john-keats-9798765119426","title":"John Cowper Powys and the Afterlife of Romanticism: Re-Imagining William Wordsworth and John Keats","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis study bridges the chronological divide between the Romantic era and the first six decades of the 20th century, interpreting John Cowper Powys (1872\u003c\/b\u003e-\u003cb\u003e1963) as a major, under-recognized contributor to the cultural transmission of Romanticism.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKim Wheatley's \u003ci\u003eJohn Cowper Powys and the Afterlife of Romanticism\u003c\/i\u003e uncovers the surprising extent to which this multi-faceted Modernist-era author reworked key concerns of the Romantic poets. Wheatley shows how Powys's prose rewritings of Romantic poetry contribute to the story of the posthumous life of Romanticism, especially its environmental legacy. In particular, the book expands our understanding of the early 20th-century reception of William Wordsworth and John Keats. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWheatley argues that Powys anticipates and presciently interrogates recent revisionary critical approaches to the Romantics, primarily materialist eco-critical approaches, and therefore invites a fresh environmentalist criticism open to the transcendental and the supernatural. Chapters range across Powys's extensive oeuvre, investigating his treatment of Wordsworth and Keats in his works of fiction, autobiographical writings, popular philosophical books, and essays of literary appreciation, including his \u003ci\u003eAutobiography\u003c\/i\u003e (1934), his four major Wessex novels - \u003ci\u003eWolf Solent\u003c\/i\u003e (1929), \u003ci\u003eA Glastonbury Romance\u003c\/i\u003e (1932), \u003ci\u003eWeymouth Sands\u003c\/i\u003e (1934), and \u003ci\u003eMaiden Castle\u003c\/i\u003e (1936) - and his later Welsh historical novels \u003ci\u003eOwen Glendower\u003c\/i\u003e (1941) and \u003ci\u003ePorius\u003c\/i\u003e (1951). Wheatley demonstrates how Powys uniquely combines sense-based nature-worship, the leveling of animate and inanimate, and care for disabled human beings, along with mystical and magical themes, into an all-encompassing ecological vision more capacious than any imagined by the Romantics themselves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kim Wheatley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/06\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.12lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798765119426","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43981235323017,"sku":"9798765119426","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_0a1adb00-fe79-4342-936f-02928c79d77d.jpg?v=1747119693","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/john-cowper-powys-and-the-afterlife-of-romanticism-re-imagining-william-wordsworth-and-john-keats-9798765119426","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}