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Number One Spring 1977
Editorial 5
George Steiner The Difficulties of Reading John Cowper Powys 7
Angus Wilson John Cowper Powys as a Novelist 13
G. Wilson Knight John Cowper Powys as Humorist 27
Papers Read to the Powys Society, 1968-1976 34
Checklist of Writings on J.C.Powys and his critics, 1972-1976 34
Number Two Winter 1977
Editorial 1
Richard Luckett T. F. Powys: Aspects of his Language 3
Michael Roulstone Llewelyn Powys 11
Ben Jones The Disfigurement of Gerda: Moral and Textual Problems in Wolf Solent 20
T. J. Diffey John Cowper Powys and Philosophy 27
Timothy Hyman The Religion of a Sceptic 40
Glen Cavaliero Phoenix and Serpent: D. H. Lawrence and John Cowper Powys 51
Stephen Allen The Real Mynydd-y-Gaer 59
Oliver Marlow Wilkinson John Cowper Powys in Love 61
John Cowper Powys in America to T. F. Powys: Letters 1923-1929 67
Reviews 75
Research Theses on John Cowper Powys,
Recently Completed and in Progress 81
An Enquiry 81
Notes on Contributors 81
Reviews
Dante Thomas A Bibliography of the Writings of John Cowper Powys: 1872-1963
BELINDA HUMFREY 75
Glen Cavaliero The Rural Tradition in the English Novel 1900-1939
JEREMY HOOKER 78
Number Three Summer 1978
Editorial 1
A Tribute to a Friend, Sylvia Townsend Warner: T. F. Powys's Foreword to
A Moral Ending, (1931) 5
T. F. Powys Three Stories: Hast Thou Found Honey; Harlot Honey; The Scapegoat 7
Peter Riley T. F. Powys at Mappowder: A consideration of his fiction in the light of the final twenty years of non-writing 17
John Toft John Cowper Powys's Atlantis 32
Kim Taplin No Man's Girl and Other Borrowings 42
Barbara Dennis Two Views of Matthew Arnold:
A Note on John Cowper Powys's Place as a Literary Critic 46
Emyr Humphreys Arnold in Wonderland 49
John Cowper Powys's Inscriptions to Elsa Vaudrey: Some Explanatory Notes by
Belinda Humfrey (Plates 1 to 10) 59
J. C. Powys to T. F. Powys: Some Letters from Wales, 1935--1949,
assembled by Alasdair Tilson 71
(Plates 11 to 14)
John Cowper Powys, The Real and the Ideal,
reprinted from Spain and the World, Supplement, May, 1938 78
Rosemary Manning Alyse Gregory: A Biographical Sketch
based on her Published and Private Writings 80
Reviews 99
The Powys Family Tree composed by Clare Stephens 104
Odds and Ends 106
Notes on Contributors 106
Reviews
T. F. Powys Mr Tasker's Gods
William Hunter The Novels and Stories of T. F. Powys
RACHEL TRICKETT 99
Kenneth White The Life-Technique of John Cowper Powys
GLEN CAVALIERO 102
Number Four Winter/Spring 1978/1979
Editorial 1
(Plates A and B)
T. F. Powys No Wine: a story 4
Glen Cavaliero T. F. Powys in Dorset: a poem 8
Llewelyn Powys Conversations with Theodore, 1931 9
(Plate C)
Gerard Casey Three Christian Brothers 14
Timothy Hyman John Cowper Powys and Religion:
Dostoievsky as the type of the Prophetic Artist 21
J. M. Turner Life Illusion and Stupid Being 25
Peter Easingwood John Cowper Powys and the Pleasures of Literature 29
Jeremy Hooker T. F. Powys: "The Bass Note" 35
Ian Hamilton T. F. Powys and the Bible 44
Patricia Vaughan Dawson The Brazen Head Sculptures and Etchings 55
(Plates 1 to 8)
Sonia Tilson John Cowper Powys and Kenneth Hopkins 65
Ned Thomas Obstinate Cymric 75
Elmar Schenkel John Cowper Powys: The Literary Reception in Germany 79
Reviews 82
Letters to the Editor 85
Notes on Contributors 87
Reviews
G. Wilson Knight The Saturnian Quest: John Cowper Powys - A Study of his Prose Works ROLAND MATHIAS 82
Number Five Summer 1979 Volume II i
Editorial 5
Glen Cavaliero Sylvia Townsend Warner:
an appreciation 6
Sylvia Townsend Warner Theodore Powys and Some Friends at East Chaldon, 1922--1927:
A Narrative and Some Letters 13
Harry Coombes Mr. Tasker's Gods 27
Martyn Branford The Starting Point: The Early Fiction of T. F. Powys and Kate Roberts 34
Michel Pouillard T. F. Powys and the Theatre 45
Carole Coates Gerda and Christie 55
Charles Lock " 'Multiverse' . . . language which makes language impossible" 63
G. Wilson Knight A Preface Composed for Ichiro Hara's Translation of Mortal Strife 75
T. J. Diffey Poems for John Cowper Powys 78
Anthony Dyer William Powys: an appreciation 81
Reviews 85
Letters to the Editor 91
Notes on Contributors 93
Reviews
Robert Gittings and Jo Manton The Second Mrs. Hardy F. B. PINION 85
Roland Mathias The Hollowed-Out Elder Stalk. John Cowper Powys as Poet
BERNARD JONES 85
Jeremy Hooker John Cowper Powys and David Jones: A Comparative Study
DAVID BLAMIRES 89
Number Six Winter/Spring, 1979/1980 Volume II ii
Editorial 5
Peter Easingwood John Cowper Powys and America 7
Marguerite Tjader John Cowper Powys and Theodore Dreiser: A Friendship 16
Norman Bryson Universe and "Multiverse": John Cowper Powys as a Critic of Dreiser's Fiction 24
John Cowper Powys Four Essays on Dreiser:
Theodore Dreiser [ The 'Genius '] (1915) 33
An American Tragedy, (1926) 38
Dreiser, (1932) 43
Introduction to Notes on Life, (1946) 46
John Cowper Powys Elusive America, (1927) 50
Farewell to America, (1935) 54
Ned Lukacher Notre-Homme-des-Fleurs: Wolf Solent's Metaphoric Legends 64
Jack Clemo Mappowder Revisited 74
Peter John Foss Llewelyn Powys: Towards a Reconsideration 75
Letters to the Editor 81
Reviews 83
Notes on Contributors 97
Reviews
Jay Martin Always Merry and Bright / The Life of Henry Miller
An Unauthorised Biography ARNOLD GOLDMAN 83
Roland Mathias Snipe's Castle LESLIE NORRIS 86
Glen Cavaliero A Reading of E. M. Forster RICHARD PARKINSON 88
Gamel Woolsey Twenty Eight Sonnets; The Last Leaf Falls; Middle Earth
SALLY JONES 91
Kenneth Hopkins Llewelyn Powys, An Essay ELIZABETH HARVEY 92
Kim Taplin The English Path JEREMY HOOKER 94
Number Seven Winter 1980 Volume II iii
Editorial 5
Mary Casey A Tribute by Glen Cavaliero 6
Mary Casey Poems for her uncles and aunts 9
Cedric Hentschel The Improbable Belligerent:
The Role of John Cowper Powys in Two World Wars 14
Ichiro Hara John Cowper Powys and Zen 24
Cicely Hill "Susukeshi Hina Mo": John Cowper Powys and the Chuang-Tse Legacy 35
John Cowper Powys The Philosopher Kwang (1923) 45
Ian Hughes Allusion, Illusion, and Reality: Fact and Fiction in Wolf Solent 49
John Cowper Powys Wolf Solent: a letter to his brother Llewelyn 51
Sylvia Townsend Warner East Chaldon and T. F. Powys 59
Glen Cavaliero The Powys Family and Dorset 71
Marius Buning Mappowder Revisited: T. F. Powys's Reading in Retirement 78
Denys Val Baker The Powys Family: Some Memories of the Mid-Forties 87
Letters to the Editor 89
Reviews 91
Notes on Contributors 111
Reviews
Belinda Humfrey Recollections of the Powys Brothers JEREMY HOOKER 91
Keith Sagar The Life of D. H. Lawrence: An Illustrated Biography
JOHN WORTHEN 94
Myron Matlaw, ed. American Popular Entertainment: Papers and Proceedings
of the Conference on the History of American Popular Entertainment
(Lincoln Center, 1977) PETER DAVISON 96
V. S. Pritchett The Myth Makers T. J. WINNIFRITH 99
Robert Gittings The Older Hardy T. R. M. CREIGHTON 100
Phyllis Rose Woman of Letters:A Life of Virginia Woolf ALLEN McLAURIN 104
Charles Osborne W. H. Auden, The Life of a Poet LAWRENCE NORMAND 106
Gerald Brenan Thoughts in a Dry Season: A Miscellany JOHN BATCHELOR 107
John Ackerman Welsh Dylan JOHN PRESS 108
Number Eight 1980/1981 Volume II iv
Editorial 5
John Cowper Powys's After My Fashion: a series of views.
(Glen Cavaliero, Ben Jones, Cedric Hentschel, Kim Taplin, G. Wilson Knight, T. J. Diffey) 8
Emyr Humphreys A Perpetual Curate 22
John Hodgson On Reading Porius 28
Ben Jones John Cowper Powys's Literary Criticism: Continuity and Context 39
Denis Lane John Cowper Powys, Thomas Hardy and the Faces of Nature 48
Mary Barham Johnson The Powys Mother 57
J. E. Roberts Two Photographs of John Cowper Powys 65
Gamel Woolsey to Alyse Gregory: Some Letters 1930-1957,
edited by Kenneth Hopkins 68
Reviews 79
Notes on Contributors 91
Reviews
M. Krissdottir John Cowper Powys and the Magical Quest. BEN JONES 79
Sylvia Townsend Warner Twelve Poems. CLAlRE HARMAN 81
Brian Finney Christopher Isherwood, A Critical Biography.
BERNARD BERGONZI 82
Frank Gloversmith, ed. Class, Culture and Social Change A New View of the 1930s. PETER MILES 83
Brian Lee Theory and Personality: The Significance of T. S. Eliot's Criticism. PATRICK PARRINDER 86
Tom Earley Rebel's Progress. GILLIAN CLARKE 87
R. L. Caserio Plot, Story and the Novel: From Dickens and Poe to the Modern Period. PHILIP BENTLEY 89
Number Nine 1981/1982 Volume III i
Editorial 5
John Cowper Powys Glastonbury: "Author's Review", (1932) 7
Penny Smith The "Cave of the man-eating Mothers": its location in A Glastonbury Romance 10
Ned Lukacher "Between Philology and Psychology": Cronos, Dostoievsky and the Language
of Myth in John Cowper Powys's A Glastonbury Romance 18
John Hodgson Springtime Out of Winter: John Cowper Powys,
A Glastonbury Romance and Spengler 27
John Cowper Powys Sacco-Vanzetti and Epochs, The Moon over Megalopolis, (1929) 37
John Thomas "The King Edgar Chapel Man": Bond, Glastonbury, and the 'Alternative' Theory of Gothic Architecture 39
Peter Foss Llewelyn Powys: The Heart of Darkness 44
Two portrait sketches:
Llewelyn Powys, 1930, by Reginald Marsh, with information by Philip Larkin 57
T. F. Powys, 1924, by Clifford Webb, with a reminiscence
by Mrs. Clifford Webb (Ella Monkton) 59
Theodora Scutt Theodore Powys, (1934-1953) 60
Ronald Hall The Old Man With The Praise (1952) 77
Reviews 81
Notes on Contributors 91
Reviews
Andrew Motion The Poetry of Edward Thomas. R. GEORGE THOMAS 81
Donald Mitchell Britten and Auden in the Thirties: The Year 1936.
NEIL TIERNEY 82
Walter Allen The Short Story in English. J. I. M. STEWART 84
Michael Rosenthal Virginia Woolf. ALLEN SAMUELS 85
Jeremy Hawthorn Joseph Conrad: Language and Fictional Self-Consciousness.
ALAN SANDISON 86
Kenneth F. Day Eden Phillpotts on Dartmoor. GLEN CAVALIERO 87
J. R. Lloyd Thomas Moth or Phoenix. JOHN RYDER 88
Number Ten 1981/1982 (Spring 1982) Volume III ii
Editorial 5
J. Lawrence Mitchell Ray Garnett as Illustrator 9
John Williams Theodore Powys: " all good books tell the same tale " 29
Theodora Scutt Theodore Powys, 1934- 1953: a continuation 42
Stephen Powys Marks A. R. Powys: a sketch of his life and work 49
John Thomas The Shock of the New: A. R. Powys and Building Repair 67
Oliver Holt Littleton Powys 73
Littleton Powys Llandovery 50 years ago (1955) 82
John Baker John Cowper Powys in Corwen 85
J. C. Powys and James Hanley in Corwen, c. 1935 (photographs) 87
Reviews 89
Notes on Contributors 105
Reviews
John Rhys Celtic Folklore Welsh and Manx. D. SIMON EVANS 89
William Blissett The Long Conversation: A Memoir of David Jones.
DAVID BLAMIRES 89
Gunther Stuhlmann Henry Miller: Letters to Anais Nin. PARIS LEARY 90
Adelaide Ross Reverie. PETER EASINGWOOD 92
Patrick Grant Six Modern Authors and Problems of Belief. LIONEL ADEY 94
Victoria Glendinning Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn Among Lions. ALAN MUNTON 96
M. A. Screech Rabelais. TREVOR PEACH 98
Rex Hunter The Saga of Sinclair. JOHN S. MACALISTER 100
Paul Fussell Abroad: British Literary Travelling Between the Wars.
PETER MILES 101
Number Eleven 1982/83 Volume III iii
Paris Leary Welsh Poem 5
Penny Smith "Seeking the Line of Escape":
Freedom and Freewill in John Cowper Powys's Early Novels 8
John Cowper Powys "Remembrances": Weymouth Sands (1933) 16
Margaret Moran The Vision and Revision of John Cowper Powys's Weymouth Sands 18
Susan Huxtable Selly Mysticism, Trivia and Sensations: Observations on Weymouth Sands 32
Elizabeth Tombs Women in Weymouth Sands 46
John Cowper Powys James Joyce ( 1932) 56
Elmar Schenkel A Sense of Connectedness: Hugo Kükelhaus and John Cowper Powys 61
Bernard Jones Some Observations on Hardy's Letters 74
Reviews 86
Letters to the Editor 102
Notes on Contributors 104
Reviews
Jeremy Hooker Englishman's Road ROY FISHER 86
Edna Longley A Language Not To Be Betrayed
Roland Gant Edward Thomas on the Countryside
KIM TAPLIN 87
Gamel Woolsey The Weight of Human Hours JOHN S. MACALISTER 89
Kenneth Hopkins Collected Poems 1935-1965 , Collected Poems 1966-1977
JEREMY HOOKER 90
Humphrey Carpenter W. H. Auden: A Biography
Edward Mendelson Early Auden
LAWRENCE NORMAND 92
John Batchelor The Edwardian Novelists CHRISTOPHER ROLFE 95
Robert Green Ford Madox Ford: Prose and Politics CEDRIC HENTSCHEL 96
Julian Symons Critical Observations STUART LAING 99
Number Twelve 1982/1983 (Spring 1983) Volume III iv
Editorial 5
Michel Pouillard Woman and Women in T. F. Powys's Novels 7
lan Hughes A Poor Ragged Maiden: The Textual History of Maiden Castle 17
T. J. Diffey John Cowper Powys and Thomas Hardy 26
Furse Swann Thomas Hardy and the "Appetite for Joy" 39
Charles Lock Confessions of Two Brothers 49
Peter Foss The Confessions of a Diarist 59
Gamel Woolsey A Selection of her Letters to Llewelyn Powys 1930-1939
edited by KENNETH HOPKINS 67
Alyse Gregory Some Letters to Mary Casey 84
Reviews 86
Reports and Requests 107
Notes on Contributors 109
Reviews
Mary Casey Full Circle; Christophoros KIM TAPLIN 86
G. H. Neville; ed. Carl Baron A Memoir of D. H. Lawrence (The Betrayal)
D. H. Lawrence; ed. Mara Kalnins Apocalypse and Other Writings on Revelation
GRAHAM HOLDERNESS 88
Rex Hunter And Tomorrow Comes PETER FOSS 90
Sydney Bolt A Preface to James Joyce
Dominic Manganiello Joyce's Politics
MARIUS BUNING 92
Helen Gardner In Defence of the Imagination ALLEN SAMUELS 94
Claire Harman, ed. The Collected Poems of Sylvia Townsend Warner
BERNARD JONES 96
Kathleen Raine; ed. Brian Keeble The Inner Journey of the Poet
Sandra Anstey, ed. Critical Writings on R. S. Thomas
SIMON BARKER 100
Publications Received:Bernard Jones William Barnes; Thomas Hardy G.CAVALIERO 105
Jeremy Hooker and Gweno Lewis, eds. Selected Poems of Alun
Lewis JOHN IDRIS JONES 106
Number Thirteen 1983/1984 Volume IV i
Martin Steinmann Jr T. F. Powys and Tradition 5
Patrick Parrinder The Age of Fantasy 16
Elizabeth Barrett "The Borderland of the Miraculous": Romance and Naturalism in
John Cowper Powys's A Glastonbury Romance 20
Tony Head Method in Madness: Sublimity and Bathos in the Major Novels of
John Cowper Powys 33
Ben Jones Who Converted Gaffer Barge? 42
G. Wilson Knight John Cowper Powys's "The Ridge": an Interpretation 44
Tom Copeman Hart A Printer and a Powys 49
Charles Rogers Recollections of a Montacute Boot Boy 59
Letters to the Editor 64
Reviews 70
Notes on Contributors 92
Reviews
C. A. Coates John Cowper Powys in Search of a Landscape JEREMY HOOKER 70
Bertrand Russell & J. C. Powys; introd. M. Moran Is Modern Marriage
a Failure? CARL SPADONI 73
J. A. W. Bennett Poetry of the Passion: Studies in Twelve Centuries of English Verse
LIONEL ADEY 75
Ed. L. Huber & J. J. White Musil in Focus CEDRIC HENTSCHEL 76
Allon White The Uses of Obscurity & The Fiction of Early Modernism
PETER CONRADI 79
Leonard Unger Eliot's Compound Ghosts: Influence and Confluence
JOHN WORTHEN 80
Gillian E. Hanscombe The Art of Life: Dorothy Richardson and the Development of Feminist Consciousness ALLEN McLAURIN 81
Daniel Farson Henry: An Appreciation of Henry Williamson H. P. COLLINS 83
Richard Johnstone The Will to Believe: Novelists of the Nineteen-thirties
PETER MILES 84
T. R. Fyvel George Orwell: A Personal Memoir PETER DAVISON 87
Frances Donaldson P. G. Wodehouse: The Authorized Biography J. N. DAWSON 89
Thomas Merton; ed. Brother Patrick Hart The Literary Essays
THOMAS WOODMAN 90
Number Fourteen 1984 Volume IV ii
Llewelyn Powys The Necrophilias (with a Note by Peter J. Foss) 3
Glen Cavaliero The Novels of Phyllis Paul 6
Eigra Lewis Roberts Words that Burn 11
A. Thomas Southwick John Cowper Powys in America: The Letters to Marian 17
J. C. Powys to Marian on A. R. Powys's death: a letter 26
L. A. Powys A Poem for his Father, John Cowper Powys, (8 October 1948) 28
T. J. Diffey John Cowper Powys: Some Thoughts about his Imagination 29
Roy Fisher A Poem from Diversions, Second Series 44
Some letters from J. C. Powys in Wales to Hal and Violet Trovillion, Illinois (1949-1961) 45
Wolfgang Kehr J. C. Powys in Conversation, Corwen, 1954 51
Rolf Italiaander An award to J. C. Powys, Blaenau Ffestiniog, 1957 54
A. J. Brothers J. C. Powys on Aristophanes's Acharnians: an Introduction 58
John Cowper Powys The Acharnians (c. 1948-1950) 60
Laurence Coupe The Comic Vision of T. F. Powys 72
Tributes to Derrick Stephens 77
Cedric Hentschel Review article: The Brothers Powys , Richard Perceval Graves 78
Reviews 87
Notes on Contributors 105
Reviews
Llewelyn Powys Dorset Essays: Earth Memories PAUL ROBERTS 87
Thomas Jackson Rice English Fiction, 1900-1950 Vol. II MARGARET EATON 88
Michael Millgate Thomas Hardy: A Biography JOAN GRUNDY 90
Graham Holderness D. H. Lawrence: History, Ideology and Fiction
JOHN WORTHEN 91
Edward Thomas Wales ROLAND MATHIAS 93
Anthony Berridge, ed. The Letters of Edward Thomas to Jesse Berridge
R. GEORGE THOMAS 96
Harry Blamires Twentieth-Century Light Literature ANDREW HASSAM 97
Ann Matsa American Literature in Context IV, 1900-1950 ALLEN SAMUELS 99
J. Hillis Miller Fiction and Repetition RICHARD MACHIN 100
Carol Jones Late in the Day ISLWYN FFOWC ELIS 102
Number Fifteen 1984/1985 Volume IV iii
Editorial 1
John Cowper Powys Llewelyn Powys, Writer (from "Four Brothers", 1925) 11
Ian Hughes A Virgin with No Name: The Beginnings of Maiden Castle 14
Susan Rands Maiden Castle: Symbol, Theme and Personality 22
Angela Blaen Maiden Castle and the Celtic Calendar 32
John Cowper Powys The Magic of Detachment (1933) 35, Egotism and Impersonality (1934) 38
R. G. Felton: To J. C. Powys 41
David Goodway The Politics of John Cowper Powys 42
Jack V. Barbera A Powys's Bridal Night and Stevie Smith 53
Bryn Gunnell T. F. Powys in his Time 55
Simon Barker "Embroiderers of Tales", Review-article: Anglo-Welsh Poetry 1480-1980 Raymond Garlick & Roland Mathias, eds. 64
Reviews 70
Letter to the Editor: Ichiro Hara: A Tribute 89
Notes on Contributors 90
Reviews
Roland Mathias Burning Brambles: Selected Poems 1944-1979 EDWIN MORGAN 70
J. Lawrence Mitchell T. F. Powys MARIUS BUNING 72
C. Hentschel, ed. Powys to Eric the Red: The Letters . . . to Sven-Eric Tackmark
[Sven Erik Täckmark] R. Blackmore, ed. Powys to Knight: The Letters . . . to G. R. Wilson Knight
MORINE KRISSDOTTIR 73
C. Hentschel, ed. Powys to Eric the Red: The Letters . . . to Sven-Eric Tackmark
[Sven Erik Täckmark] GÖRAN BÖRG (tr.) LAURIE THOMPSON 75
Anne Wilson Traditional Romance and Tale MALDWYN MILLS 76
John Pilling Autobiography and Imagination: Studies in Self-Scrutiny
ANDREW HASSAM 78
Frances Spalding Vanessa Bell JUDITH COLLINS 79
C. A. Hankin, ed. The Letters of John Middleton Murray to Katherine Mansfield
H. P. COLLINS 81
Glen Cavaliero Charles Williams, Poet of Theology MURRAY J. EVANS 84
Bernard Oldsey, ed. Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 15: British Novelists, 1930-1959 PETER MILES 86
Number 16 1985 Volume IV iv
Theo Dunnet J. C. Powys in the 1890s (with 14 photographs) 4
Glen Cavaliero John Cowper Powys: Space Traveller 24
N. L. Rothman "A Spiritual Tragedy": an American review of Wolf Solent, (1929) 32
Paul Roberts Becoming Mr Nobody: Personality and the Philosophy of John Cowper Powys 34
Morine Krissdottir G. R. Wilson Knight: "Master in Discernment" 44
John Cowper Powys D. H. Lawrence (1932) 52
Letters to the Editor 55
Reviews 58
Notes on Contributors 77
Reviews
G. Wilson Knight Klinton Top PETER FOSS 58
Ralph W. V. Elliott Thomas Hardy's English BERNARD JONES 60
Donald Stanford, ed. John Masefield: Letters to Margaret Bridges
R. GEORGE THOMAS 62
John Holloway The Slumber of Apollo: Reflections on Recent Art J. R. WATSON 64
Lynette Hunter George Orwell: The Search for a Voice ALLEN SAMUELS 65
Jeremy Hawthorn, ed. Criticism and Critical Theory CATHERINE BELSEY 68
Richard Poole, ed. Fiction as Truth: Selected Literary Writings by Richard Hughes
PAUL BENNETT MORGAN 70
Jeremy Hooker Poetry of Place: Essays and Reviews 1970-1981 PETER LEWIS 72
Emyr Humphreys The Taliesin Tradition CARY ARCHARD 74
Number 17 1985 Volume V i
Roland Mathias John Cowper Powys and 'Wales'. A Limited Study 5
Colin Style On Hardy's Sacred Ground: John Cowper Powys's Weymouth Sands 27
Peter G. Christensen Middlemarch: A Point of Reference in Weymouth Sands 39
Margaret Moran Premonitory Hints and Embryo Suggestions in J. C. Powys's Wood and Stone
and Rodmoor 48
G. Wilson Knight: The Editor's Preface 56
Francis Berry G. Wilson Knight: His Life and Work 58
Reviews 63
Letters to the Editor 81
Notes on Contributors 83
Reviews
Gillian Clarke Selected Poems ANN STEVENSON 63
Gwyn A. Williams When was Wales? A History of the Welsh
Wynford Vaughan Thomas Wales: A History
PAUL BENNETT MORGAN 64
John Cowper Powys Paddock Calls ANTHONY HEAD 67
Valentine Ackland For Sylvia: An Honest Account CLAIRE HARMAN 70
Kenneth Hopkins, ed. The Letters of Gamel Woolsey To Llewelyn Powys, 1900-1939
The Collected Poems of Gamel Woolsey JOHN HARRIES 72
Richard Taylor, ed. Emma Hardy Diaries BARRIE SAYWOOD 74
Patrick Parrinder James Joyce WILLIAM BAKER 76
Kenneth Hopkins Bertrand Russell and Gamel Woolsey CARL SPADONI 79
Number Eighteen 1986 Volume V ii
Glen Cavaliero The Comic Spirit in the Novels and Fantasies of John Cowper Powys 5
Meirion Pennar In Search of the Real Glendower 20
John [Cowper] Powys Mordaunt Ap Gryfith. A tale (A schoolboy's incomplete manuscript romance, introduced by Belinda Humfrey) 24
Ian Hughes The Genre of John Cowper Powys's Major Novels 29
Susan Rands Rodmoor: Aspects of its Provenance and Direction 39
Jacqueline Peltier American Landscapes in John Cowper Powys's Letters
to His Brother Llewelyn 48
John Cowper Powys Drought and the River Bed (a poem) 60
T. J. Diffey A Visit to Mrs Lily Brooks, 5 June 1985 62
Angela Blaen The Wisht Hound Tradition and T. F. Powys's Mark Only 66
Editor's Obituary Note:
Philip Larkin and H. P. Collins 69
Reviews 70
Notes on Contributors 95
Reviews
R. S. Thomas Ingrowing Thoughts STEPHEN BANN 70
Michael Carter George Orwell and the Problem of Authentic Existence
BERNARD CRICK 72
Llewelyn Powys Black Laughter JOHN HARRIS 74
T. W. Rolleston Myths and Legends of the Celtic Race DEREK BRYCE 76
D. Helen Allday Insurrection in Wales DAFYDD HUW EVANS 78
Ruth Danon Work in the English Novel: The Myth of Vocation
GRAHAM HOLDERNESS 81
P. N. Furbank Pound J. P. SULLIVAN 82
Patrick Bridgwater The German Poets of the First World War
GORDON WILLIAMS 84
Roderick Watson MacDiarmid EDWIN MORGAN 90
Publications Received 92
Number Nineteen 1986 Volume V iii
J. Lawrence Mitchell The Education of T. F. Powys 3
Michael Ballin John Cowper Powys's Porius and the Dialectic of History 20
Dorothee von Huene Greenberg Stone Worship and the Search for Community in John Cowper Powys's A Glastonbury Romance 36
Oliver Marlow Wilkinson The Letters of Frances and Jack 43
Frederick Davies Recollections of John Cowper Powys and Phyllis Playter: Part One 58
Notices 66
Reviews 67
Notes on Contributors 89
Reviews
T. F. Powys Mr Weston's Good Wine MARTIN STEINMANN 67
Roy Fisher A Furnace JEREMY HOOKER 71
Edward Larrissy William Blake DESIREE HIRST 73
David Punter The Hidden Script: Writing and the Unconscious
LAWRENCE NORMAND 76
Raymond H. Thompson The Return from Avalon: A Study of the Arthurian Legend in Modern Fiction T. A. SHIPPEY 78
Andrew Rutherford, ed. Early Verse by Rudyard Kipling 1879-1889
MARTIN GREEN 79
R. George Thomas Edward Thomas: A Portrait LESLIE NORRIS 81
Gwyn Thomas Sorrow For Thy Sons PETER MILES 83
Fleur Adcock Selected Poems GILLIAN CLARKE 85
Roger Fowler Linguistic Criticism ANDREW HASSAM 87
Number 20 1987 Volume V iv
T. F. Powys This Is Thyself Introduced and annotated by J. Lawrence Mitchell 5
Susan Rands Aspects of the Topography of A Glastonbury Romance 27
Margaret Woolf J . C. Powys's Autobiography in the light of
The Letters to His Brother Llewelyn 41
Frederick Davies Recollections of John Cowper Powys and Phyllis Playter: Part Two 47
Glen Cavaliero, Gordon Wynne, Margaret Woolf
Lucy Amelia Penny (née Powys) 1890-1986 58
Alyse Gregory Philippa Powys 66
Frank Warren Winter at Chydyok: A Reverie 70
Reviews 71
Notes on Contributors 94
Reviews
H. W. Fawkner The Ecstatic World of John Cowper Powys T. J. DIFFEY 71
A. O. J. Cockshut The Art of Autobiography BARBARA DENNIS 74
Marius Buning T. F. Powys: A Modern Allegorist JEREMY HOOKER 76
John Cowper Powys Three Fantasies IAN HUGHES 78
Louis L. Martz, ed. George Herbert and Henry Vaughan HELEN WILCOX 81
J. B. Bullen The Expressive Eye: Fiction and Perception in the Work
of Thomas Hardy ARLENE M. JACKSON 83
Trevor Rowley The Landscape of the Welsh Marches
PAUL BENNETT MORGAN 86
Leslie Norris Selected Poems ROBERT MINHINNICK 88
John Cowper Powys Horned Poppies . . . BERNARD JONES 90
Number 21 1987-1988 Volume VI i
Tony Brown "On the Screen of Eternity": Some Aspects of R. S. Thomas's Prose 5
Charles Lock "To Ravage and Redeem": Maiden Castle and the Violation of Form 16
Peter Christensen Wessex 1272: History in John Cowper Powys's The Brazen Head 28
H. W. Fawkner John Cowper Powys and Ontotheology 35
Ben Jones John Cowper Powys in Mexico 49
Patricia Vaughan Dawson Etchings and Sculptures Suggested by Scenes
from J. C. Powys's Porius 50
Reviews 60
Notes on Contributors 79
Reviews
Mary Casey The Kingfisher's Wing GLEN CAVALIERO 60
Vilhelm Ekelund The Second Light CEDRIC HENTSCHEL 61
Noel Kennedy Thomas Henry Vaughan: Poet of Revelation GARETH ROBERTS 63
Joan H. Harding From Fox Howe to Fairy Hill. Matthew Arnold's Celtic Connections
BARBARA DENNIS 64
John Halperin Gissing: A Life in Books ANDREW HASSAM 66
Caitlin Thomas with George Tremlett Caitlin: Life with Dylan Thomas
JAMES A. DAVIES 67
Meic Stephens, ed. The Oxford Companion to the Literature of Wales
PETER DAVISON 69
Roland Mathias Anglo-Welsh Literature: An Illustrated History JOHN HARRIS 70
Richard Poole Richard Hughes: Novelist PAUL BENNETT MORGAN 72
Randall Stevenson The British Novel Since the Thirties: An Introduction
WILLIAM BAKER 74
Jeremy Hooker The Presence of the Past JOHN WILLIAMS 76
Number 22 1988 Volume VI ii
Robin L. Wood John Cowper Powys's Welsh Mythology: Gods and Manias 3
W. J. Keith The Archaeological Background to Maiden Castle 14
Penny Smith Works Without Names: John Cowper Powys's Early,
Unpublished Fiction (Part 1) 20
Don Dale-Jones, ed. Littleton Powys to A. G. Prys-Jones 28
Peter J. Foss The Religion of an Atheist: The Dawn at Seaton 36
Llewelyn Powys The Dawn 38
Deborah Wills Problems of Ontology and Omnipotence in Mr. Weston's Good Wine 41
Penny Smith Hilda Doolittle and Frances Gregg 46
Kenneth Hopkins: a notice and a memoir 52
Reviews 55
Notes on Contributors 68
Reviews
Richard Ellmann Oscar Wilde JOHN ACKERMAN 55
John E. Van Domelen Tarzan of Athens: A Biographical Study of G. Wilson Knight
PETER J. FOSS 57
Tony Curtis, ed. Wales: The Imagined Nation. Essays in Cultural and National Identity DEIAN HOPKIN 58
Brenda Chamberlain Tide-race CERIDWEN LLOYD-MORGAN 59
J. P. Ward The Poetry of R. S. Thomas SIMON BARKER 60
Barbara Dennis and David Skilton, ed. Reform and Intellectual Debate in Victorian England PHILIP COLLINS 62
Joseph Carroll Wallace Stevens's Supreme Fiction: A New Romanticism
H. W. FAWKNER 63
Gwyn Thomas and Kevin Crossley Holland The Quest for Olwen. Illustrated by Margaret Jones C. W. MARX 66
Number 23 1989 Volume VI iii
J. Lawrence Mitchell "One foot in the furrow": T. F. Powys in East Anglia 3
Charles Lock Weymouth Sands and the Matter of Representation: Live Dogs, Stuffed Animals and Unsealed Stones 25
Penny Smith Works Without Names: John Cowper Powys's Early,
Unpublished Fiction (Part 2) 39
H. W. Fawkner Owen Glendower: Love at the Margins of Being 48
Oliver Marlow Wilkinson Louis Wilkinson 60
Reviews 69
Notes on Contributors 79
Cover design: The Key of the Field, by R. A. Garnett (1930)
Reviews
Judith Stinton Chaldon Herring: The Powys Circle in a Dorset Village
CLAIRE HARMAN 69
Caradoc Evans My People, ed. John Harris LESLIE NORRIS 71
W. J. Keith Regions of the Imagination: The Development of the British Rural Novel
PETER EASINGWOOD 72
R. S. Thomas Welsh Airs
Oliver Reynolds The Player Queen's Wife
EDWIN MORGAN 73
Gillian Hanscombe and Virginia L. Smyers Writing for their Lives:
the Modernist Women, 1910-1940 LYN PYKETT 75
Roy Fisher Poems 1955-1987 DOUGLAS HOUSTON 77
Dai Smith, ed. Writer's World: Gwyn Thomas 1913-81 PETER MILES 78
Number 24 1989 Volume VI iv
Subi Swift An Eye for Interiors: The Influence of Genre Painting on the Work of
John Cowper Powys 3
Susan Rands "This Super-subtle Interpreter": Aspects of Walter Pater's Influence on
John Cowper Powys 12
Penny Smith "A Kind of Prostitution": John Cowper Powys's Dependent Women 18
Tony Hallett Ramsguard [Ramsgard] to Blacksod: The Setting of Wolf Solent 23
Jacqueline Peltier John Cowper Powys en français dans le texte 31
Stephen Carroll A Burpham Miscellany 39
Gerard Casey Lucy, Katie, Will: A Pattern of Memories 43
Raymond Garlick, Roland Mathias, Jonah Jones and others John Cowper Powys: an Impression. A Radio Programme, June 1957 51
Reviews 59
Notes on Contributors 71
Cover: John Cowper Powys in Sussex: a watercolour by Tim Kahane
(Courtesy of Stephen Carroll)
Reviews
Review article: Beckett in the Eighties MARIUS BUNING 59
Michael Parnell Laughter from the Dark, A Life of Gwyn Thomas IAN BELL 63
Jean Hartley Philip Larkin, the Marvell Press and Me GWYN WALTERS 65
Jonathan Barker, ed. The Art of Edward Thomas LAWRENCE NORMAND 66
Peter Buitenhuis The Great War of Words: Literature as Propaganda,
1914-18 and after JEFFREY RICHARDS 67
Idris Parry Speak Silence: Essays DAVID BLAMIRES 68
Hans Petersen, ed. Erkundungen: 28 Walisische Erzähler ANTHONY BUSHELL 69
Number 25 1990 Volume VIII i
Mark Patterson The Origins of John Cowper Powys's Myrddin Wyllt 3
Peter Christensen The Marriage of Myth and History in John Cowper Powys's Porius 16
Danielle Price Repetitions: Weston and Pickwick 24
Gloria G. Fromm Epistolary Counterpoint: The Letters of Dorothy Richardson
and John Cowper Powys 29
David Gerard, ed., "Ever Your Faithful Friend": Letters from John Cowper Powys
to James Hanley 39
Tony Hallett Ramsgard to Blacksod, continued 51
Susan Rands The Gateposts of Stalbridge Park 54
Jean E. Bellamy The Powys Monuments 55
Reviews 56
Notes on Contributors 71
USA/Canada PhD Theses, 1954-1989 72
Cover: Margaret Jones, illustration to The Lady of the Fountain: the blackman
(courtesy the Editor)
Reviews
John Cowper Powys Maiden Castle Introduction by Ian Hughes
GLEN CAVALIERO 56
M.E. Leaska & J. Phillips, eds. Violet to Vita: The Letters of Violet Trefusis
to Vita Sackville-West SUZANNE RAITT 57
P.J. Kavanagh People and Places: A Selection1975-1987
PAUL BENNETT MORGAN 58
Benjamin Stassen, ed. John Cowper Powys (Plein Chant, 42-43)
CERIDWEN LLOYD-MORGAN 60
Claire Harman Sylvia Townsend Warner, a Biography DESIREE HIRST 62
Larry Benson, ed. The Riverside Chaucer ALCUIN BLAMIRES 63
Louis Martz, ed. H.D.: Selected Poems ROSALIND CARROLL 64
A. N. Wilson Eminent Victorians DONALD HAWES 67
Gillian Clarke Lettering in the Rumour MERCER SIMPSON 69
Number 26 1991 Volume VIII ii
John Williams T. F. Powys: Absence and Exile in Innocent Birds 3
J. S. Rodman Plotting Wolf Solent 10
Janina Nordius Behind the Pigsty: On the Duplicity of Solitude in Wolf Solent 19
H. W. Fawkner Atlanticism: John Cowper Powys and Mineralogy 29
Ernst Verbeek John Cowper Powys: Tempting the Gods 40
Susan Rands John Cowper Powys's The Inmates, an Allegory 49
Carys Richards Some Recollections of Phyllis Playter 59
Letter to the Editor: Timothy Hyman 60
Reviews 61
Notices: Den otidsenlige och den aktuelle: John Cowper Powys (1872-1963), Sven Eric Täckmarks specialsamling. B. Humfrey 69
Notes on Contributors 69
Reviews
Charles Doyle Richard Aldington: A Biography PETER MILES 61
Gerard Casey Echoes JOHN WILLIAMS 62
Kim Taplin Tongues in Trees: Studies in Literature and Ecology
MICHAEL BELL 63
Lionel Gossman Between History and Literature R. C. RICHARDSON 64
Charles Hobday Edgell Rickword. A Poet at War GORDON WILLIAMS 65
Belinda Humfrey, ed. John Cowper Powys's ''Wolf Solent": Critical Studies
GLEN CAVALIERO 66
Numbers 27 and 28 1992-93 Volume VlI iii & iv
J. Lawrence Mitchell In search of T.F. Powys: the visual record 3
T.F. Powys: A Checklist of drawings, paintings and photographic portraits 13
T.F. Powys A story: The White Spider 16
Jeremy Hooker Thomas Hardy, John Cowper Powys and Wessex 23
Edmund Cusick A Study in the Symbolism of John Cowper Powys's Mandragora (1917) 32
Susan Rands The Topicality of A Glastonbury Romance 42
Belinda Humfrey Kraken to Sea Serpent: John Cowper Powys and Huw Menai 53
John Cowper Powys to Huw Menai: Selected Letters, 1939-1947 58
Littleton Alfred Powys A Talk between Kathleen Tranter and Susan Rands 65
Reviews 71
Notes on Contributors 81
Reviews
Geoffrey Ashe Mythology of the British Isles
Graeme Fife Arthur the King: The Theme Behind the Legends
JOHN MATTHEWS 71
Anne Wilson The Magical Quest: the Use of Magic in Arthurian Romance
MALDWYN MILLS 72
Linda Gowans Cei and the Arthurian Legend
Richard Barber, ed. Arthurian Literature IX
RACHEL BROMWICH 73
John S. Mebane Renaissance Magic and the Return of the Golden Age:
The Occult Tradition and Marlowe, Jonson and Shakespeare GARETH ROBERTS 74
Letters to Lalage: The Letters of Charles Williams to Lois Lang-Sims
Introduction by Glen Cavaliero STEPHEN MEDCALF 75
Fredric S. Colwell Rivermen: A Romantic Iconography of the River and the Source
MICHAEL O'NEILL 77
William Anderson Green Man: The Archetype of our Oneness with the Earth
TONY HALLETT 78
Anthony Head, ed. The Letters of John Cowper Powys to Ichiro Hara
Paul Roberts, ed. The Letters of John Cowper Powys to Hal W. and Violet Trovillion
IAN HUGHES 80
Peter Faulkner, ed. William Morris, Selected Poems BARBARA DENNIS 81
Numbers 29 and 30 Volume VIII i & ii
Geoffrey Gunther John Cowper Powys's Most Puzzling Novel 3
Peter G. Christensen The Rôle of Fate in History:
Owen Glendower as Epic Historical Novel 8
Oliver and Christopher Wilkinson A Forging by Fire:
John Cowper Powys and Frances Gregg 14
H. W. Fawkner The Mineralogical Microplatonism of John Cowper Powys 22
John W. Dowding John Cowper Powys's 'Six Precious Words' 27
Judith Stinton Chaldon Herring: A Place Apart 32
L. R. Leavis T. F. Powys in Perspective: The Significance of Father Adam [1919] and
The Market Bell [1924] 42
Victor Golightly Gwyn Thomas's 'Duality' 50
Robert Mighall Arcadian Perspectives: Llewelyn Powys and George Orwell 57
Rowena Griffiths A Rose for the Mistress Rowena 66
Herbert Williams JCP on TV 69
Notes on Contributors 70
Numbers 31 and 32 Volume VIII iii & iv
Editorial: Raymond Garlick and John Cowper Powys 4
Raymond Garlick Four Poems on John Cowper Powys:
Extract from Scene Seven of Blaenau Observed (1956); 'Seeing', 'Death of an Actor'
and 'The Immortals' (from Landscapes and Figures (1964)) 7
Joe Boulter John Cowper Powys's [De]construction of Welsh Identity in Porius 9
Robin Wood Queer Attacks and Fits: Epilepsy and Ecstatic Experiences in the Novels
of J. C. Powys 21
Jacqueline Peltier Powys - and the Pleasures of Proust? 30
Susan Rands The Glastonbury Libel 43
Elmar Schenkel From Powys to Pooh: Some Versions of Taoism
in British and American Literature 53
John Cowper Powys Poem: 'The Occult Madonna' (1906) 63
Joseph Resnick Remembering John Cowper Powys 64
Reviews 66
Notes on Contributors 73
Cover photograph: John Cowper Powys in the doorway of 1 Waterloo, Blaenau Ffestiniog
(Photograph: Raymond Garlick)
Reviews
Gloria G. Fromm, ed. Windows on Modernism: Selected Letters
of Dorothy Richardson ROBIN WOOD 66
Anthony Head, ed. Powys to Sea Eagle: The Letters of John Cowper Powys
to Philippa Powys J. S. RODMAN 67
Oliver and Christopher Wilkinson, eds Jack and Frances: The Love Letters
of John Cowper Powys and Frances Gregg, 2 vols
PETER EASINGWOOD 68
Frances Gregg The Mystic Leeway ed. Ben Jones BELINDA HUMFREY 69
Morine Krissdottir, ed. Petrushka and the Dancer,
The Diaries of John Cowper Powys, 1929-1939 RODNEY AITCHTEY 70
Glen Cavaliero A Steeple on a Hill K. E. SMITH 71