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spocksbro
spocksbro rated it 15 years ago
I saw an edition of this at a used bookstore for $40. A bit pricey for me at this time but I'll probably cave in eventually.___________________________________________________I can't explain better why to read Powys than to quote from John Gray's essay on him in The New Statesman:“In their different...
spocksbro
spocksbro rated it 15 years ago
I finally realized what Powys' work reminds me of: The British comedy The Vicar of Dibley, which is about the first female vicar of a small, conservative, rural English parish.As Powys writes in this novella: "Mr Martin saw that hate, lust and greed held up the world and that the waters of life flow...
spocksbro
spocksbro rated it 15 years ago
Theodore F. Powys (TF) is the younger, lesser known brother of John Cowper Powys, who wrote (among many other works) A Glastonbury Romance. Like the Brontës, many of the Powys clan wrote: There was John; another brother, Llewelyn; sister Philippa; and Theodore himself. I learned of TF’s existence th...
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