The following is a complete list of the contents, including reviews, of all the numbers of the Powys Review from Number One, Spring 1977, to Numbers 31 and 32, issued August 1997. It may be used as an index of subjects and authors by downloading it as a text file and using your word processor's search commands to find any desired references (be wary of your spelling: you will get the equivalent to "No match found" as a response to any error or alternative spelling, rather than being able to see a page in an alphabetical index to prompt your memory!). Or it may be used as an online index using your browser's "Find" command. If you find any errors, please advise us at and we will make the necessary corrections. Please use the "Back" function of your browser or click here to return to the Powys Review page. 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 |