In the Spirit of Powys

In the Spirit of Powys

Author: Denis Lane

Publisher: Bucknell University Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 9780838751732

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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:

Published: 1925

Total Pages: 476

ISBN-13:

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Decay of an English country family.


Powys

Powys

Author: Richard Haslam

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1979-03-01

Total Pages: 508

ISBN-13: 9780300096316

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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:

Published: 1964

Total Pages: 633

ISBN-13: 9780140021820

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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

Published: 2006-03-03

Total Pages: 2648

ISBN-13: 0195169212

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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


The Reimagining of Place in English Modernism

The Reimagining of Place in English Modernism

Author: Sam Wiseman

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2015-12-11

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 1942954018

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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.


Irish Influence on Medieval Welsh Literature

Irish Influence on Medieval Welsh Literature

Author: Patrick Sims-Williams

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 0199588651

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Patrick Sims-Williams provides an approach to some of the issues surrounding Irish literary influence on Wales, situating them in the context of the rest of medieval literature and international folklore.