Powys, then a celebrated lecturer in America, wrote these essays in 1915 as personal devotions to the writers he loved. Beginning with Rabelais and Dante and moving through the great poets, novelists and thinkers of Europe and America, he argues less as a scholar than as an enthusiast, testing each author against his own sense of what makes life worth living.
Extravagant, opinionated criticism for readers who enjoy seeing literature argued over with real feeling. Download the free EPUB.