For nearly for years John Cowper Powys lectured on the great writers of the world and enthralled and delighted audiences. The Pleasures of Literature may be looked on as an overflowing lecture into which the author distils the essence of all those many lectures over the tears which were sent out into the empty air and lost forever as the sound of his voice died away. In this book we may hear his voice still, and we may know it for his because never before has anyone written quite in these tones, these accents, with these special insights of Hardy or Dante or Goethe or Dostoievsky.

First published in 1938 this edition published in 1975 by Village Press. No ISBN number found.