John Cowper Powys could never be straightforward or orthodox but
here he sets off with a useful purpose. 'The aim of this book,' he
declares, 'is to narrow down a vague and somewhat evasive
conception, which hitherto, like ''aristocracy'' or ''liberty'',
has come to imply a number of contradictory and even paradoxical
elements, and to give it, not, of course, a purely logical form,
but a concrete, particular, recognizable form, malleable and
yielding enough and relative enough, but with a definite and quite
unambiguous temper, tone, quality, atmosphere, of its own.' The
book is in two parts: Analysis of Culture which deals with, in
separate chapters, Philosophy, Literature, Poetry, Painting and
Religion: Application of Culture which covers Happiness, Love,
Nature, The Art of Reading, Human Relations, Destiny and Obstacles
to Culture. John Cowper Powys hoped 'that the fine word ''culture''
. . . might lend itself to an easy, humane and liberal discussion -
a sort of one-man Platonic symposium - and even turn out to
contain, among its various implications, no unworthy clue to the
narrow path of the wise upon earth.' He succeeds completely, in his
own idiosyncratic way, in achieving that. 'Mr Powys is to be
congratulated on having written a book of the kind that most needs
writing and most deserves to be read . . . Here in a dozen chapters
of glowing and eloquent prose, Mr Powys describes for very reader
that citadel which is himself, and explains to him how it may be
strengthened and upheld and on what terms it is most worth
upholding. . .' Manchester Guardian
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