E. Powys Mathers

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E. Powys Mathers


Born
in Forest Hill, London, The United Kingdom
August 28, 1892

Died
February 03, 1939

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from Wikipedia:

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
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Coloured 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

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

“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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