In the Spirit of Powys

In the Spirit of Powys
Author: Denis Lane
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Total Pages: 290
Release: 1990
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780838751732

This work is a collection of essays on the work of John Cowper Powys, the English novelist and Nobel nominee. The critical intention of these essays is to provide a picture of Powys's achievement.

Ducdame

Ducdame
Author: John Cowper Powys
Publisher:
Total Pages: 476
Release: 1925
Genre: Man-woman relationships
ISBN:

Decay of an English country family.

The Reimagining of Place in English Modernism

The Reimagining of Place in English Modernism
Author: Sam Wiseman
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2015-12-11
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1942954018

Analyses key texts by D.H. Lawrence, John Cowper Powys, Mary Butts and Virginia Woolf, charting their respective attempts to forge new identities, perspectives and literary approaches that reconcile tradition and modernity, belonging and exploration, the rural and the metropolitan.

Powys

Powys
Author: Richard Haslam
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 508
Release: 1979-03-01
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780300096316

This volume covers the old counties of Montgomeryshire, and Breconshire. The gazetteer ranges from early Christian memorials in remote rural churches to the splendours of Powis Castle's baroque interiors and terraced gardens and the monumental achievements of the Victorian reservoir engineers.

Wolf Solent

Wolf Solent
Author: John Cowper Powys
Publisher:
Total Pages: 633
Release: 1964
Genre: English fiction
ISBN: 9780140021820

Often described as one of the great apocalyptic novels of our time, WOLF SOLENT is the story of a young man returning from London to work near to the school at which his father had been history master. Complex, romantic and humorous, it is a classicwork combining a close understanding of man's everyday experience with a delicate awareness of the spiritual.

The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature

The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature
Author: David Scott Kastan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 2648
Release: 2006-03-03
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0195169212

From folk ballads to film scripts, this new five-volume encyclopedia covers the entire history of British literature from the seventh century to the present, focusing on the writers and the major texts of what are now the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. In five hundred substantial essays written by major scholars, the Encyclopedia of British Literature includes biographies of nearly four hundred individual authors and a hundred topical essays with detailed analyses of particular themes, movements, genres, and institutions whose impact upon the writing or the reading of literature was significant.An ideal companion to The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature, this set will prove invaluable for students, scholars, and general readers.For more information, including a complete table of contents and list of contributors, please visit www.oup.com/us/ebl