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E. Powys Mathers

Born

in Forest Hill, London, The United Kingdom

August 28, 1892

Died

February 03, 1939

Genre

Poetry, Literature & Fiction

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E(dward) Powys Mathers was an English translator and poet, and also a pioneer of compiling advanced cryptic crosswords.

Powys Mathers was born in Forest Hill, London, the son of a newspaper proprietor. He was educated at Loretto and Trinity College, Oxford.

He was the editor with J.C. Mardrus of The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night (his 12 volume English translation of the Mardrus adaptation appeared in 1923).

He is known also for the translations The Garden of Bright Waters: One Hundred and Twenty Asiatic Love Poems (1920); and of the Kashmiri poet Bilhana in Bilhana: Black Marigolds (1919), a free interpretation in the tradition of Edward Fitzgerald. These are not scholarly works, and are in some cases based on inter ...more

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	Cain's Jawbone by E. Powys Mathers, Torquemada (Pseudonym) 3.75 avg rating — 3,376 ratings — published 1934 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Marigolds and Coloured Stars by E. Powys Mathers, Tony Harrison (Introduction) 4.37 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1919 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Garden of Bright Waters: One Hundred and Twenty Asiatic Love Poems really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1920 — 80 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tales of Fez liked it 3.00 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2007	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Torquemada Puzzle Book: A Miscellany & Cain"s Jawbone, A Torquemada Mystery Novel. by E. Powys Mathers, Torquemada (Pseudonym) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1934 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Cain's Jawbone Book of Crosswords by E. Powys Mathers, Will Shortz (Introduction) 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1942	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sung to Shahryar, Poems from the Book of the Thousand Nights & One Night 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1925 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eastern Love 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1958 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Coloured Stars 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1918 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Love Songs of Asia it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1944 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“A library of books is the fairest garden in the world, and to walk there is an ecstasy.”
― E. Powys Mathers, The Arabian Nights

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“Little lonely one,
You clung to me as a garment clings; my girl.”
― E. Powys Mathers, Black Marigolds

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“O whitest so soft parchment where
My poor divorced lips have written excellent
Stanzas of kisses, and will write no more.”
― E. Powys Mathers, Black Marigolds and Coloured Stars

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