RETRO-REPORT-JUNE 1963:'Patriarch' Cowper Powys dies at 90.(News)

From: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales) | Date: June 17, 2005 | Copyright information

Byline: By TONY WOOLWAY Western Mail

DESCRIBED last year as a 'patriarch of the literature of this country', John Cowper Powys, the author and poet, has died at his cottage home at Blaenau Ffestiniog, aged 90. Cowper Powys, born at Shirley, Derbyshire, of Welsh ancestry, was the eldest of the 11 children of Rev C F Powys, who was vicar of Shirley, and Mary Cowper Johnson Powys, through whom he was related to William Cowper and John Donne.

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