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100 1 _aPowys, Llewelyn,
_d1884-1939
245 1 0 _aCup-bearers of wine and hellebore
246 1 _aCup-bearers of wine and hellebore (a book of intellectual rowdies)
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aLittle blue book no. 702
500 _aRelease date is 2026-04-26
505 0 _aFrançois Rabelais -- Jonathan Swift -- Matthew Prior -- William Cowper -- James Thomson -- Padraic Colum.
508 _aTim Miller, Paul Fatula and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net
520 _aCup-bearers of wine and hellebore by Llewelyn Powys is a collection of literary essays written in the early 20th century. The book presents vivid, interpretive portraits of notable writers, blending biography and criticism to explore how temperament, belief, and circumstance shape art; its likely topic is the moral and imaginative lives behind great literature. Powys profiles six figures. François Rabelais appears as an earthy celebrant of life whose bawdy exuberance conceals deep wisdom and a hatred of hypocrisy. Jonathan Swift is drawn as a brilliant, tormented satirist—proud, inhibited, misanthropic—whose entanglements with Stella and Vanessa and gradual collapse into madness crown a career of ferocious clarity. Matthew Prior emerges as the urbane diplomat-poet of light, amorous verse and deft opportunism, charming yet often shallow. William Cowper is shown as a gentle craftsman of homely, exact nature-poetry, hounded by religious terror under John Newton’s influence, descending into desolation. James Thomson (B.V.) stands for uncompromising pessimism: the City of Dreadful Night, insomnia, poverty, drink, and defiant atheism. Padraic Colum, by contrast, embodies the soul of Ireland—fresh, lyrical, and autochthonous—catching “wild earth” moods, Celtic cadences, and a tender, haunted romanticism. Throughout, Powys interweaves anecdote, quotation, and bold judgment to pour both “wine” (rapture) and “hellebore” (bitter medicine) for the reader. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cGirard: Haldeman-Julius Company, 1924
653 _aAuthors, English -- Biography
653 _aCowper, William, 1731-1800
653 _aSwift, Jonathan, 1667-1745
653 _aRabelais, François, approximately 1490-1553?
653 _aPrior, Matthew, 1664-1721
653 _aThomson, James, 1834-1882
653 _aColum, Padraic, 1881-1972
700 1 _aHaldeman-Julius, E.
_q(Emanuel),
_d1888-1951
830 0 _aLittle blue book no. 702
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78556
999 _c119274
_d119274