The Powys Review: Contents

Number 1, Spring 1977

Editorial
George Steiner The Difficulties of Reading John Cowper Powys
Angus Wilson John Cowper Powys as a Novelist
G. Wilson Knight John Cowper Powys as Humorist
Papers Read to the Powys Society, 1968-1976
Checklist of Writings on J.C. Powys and his critics, 1972-1976

Number 2, Winter 1977

Editorial
Richard Luckett T.F Powys: Aspects of his Language
Michael Roulstone Llewelyn Powys
Ben Jones The Disfigurement of Gerda: Moral and Textual Problems in Wolf Solent
T.J. Diffey John Cowper Powys and Philosophy
Timothy Hyman The Religion of a Sceptic
Glen Cavaliero Phoenix and Serpent: D. H. Lawrence and John Cowper Powys
Stephen Allen The Real Mynydd-y-Gaer
Oliver Marlow Wilkinson John Cowper Powys in Love
John Cowper Powys in America to T.F Powys: Letters 1923-1929
Reviews
- Dante Thomas A Bibliography of the Writings of John Cowper Powys: 1872-1963. BELINDA HUMFREY
- Glen Cavaliero The Rural Tradition in the English Novel 1900-1939. JEREMY HOOKER
Research Theses on John Cowper Powys, Recently Completed and in Progress
An Enquiry
Notes on Contributors

Number 3, Summer 1978

Editorial
A Tribute to a Friend, Sylvia Townsend Warner: T.F Powys’s Foreword to A Moral Ending, 1931
T.F Powys Three Stories: Hast Thou Found Honey; Harlot Honey; The Scapegoat
Peter Riley T.F Powys at Mappowder: A consideration of his fiction in the light of the final twenty years of non-writing
John Toft John Cowper Powys’s Atlantis
Kim Taplin No Man's Girl and Other Borrowings
Barbara Dennis Two Views of Matthew Arnold: A Note on John Cowper Powys’s Place as a Literary Critic
Emyr Humphreys Arnold in Wonderland
John Cowper Powys’s Inscriptions to Elsa Vaudrey: Some Explanatory Notes by Belinda Humfrey (Plates 1 to 10)
J.C. Powys to T.F Powys: Some Letters from Wales, 1935—1949, assembled by Alasdair Tilson (Plates 11 to 14)
John Cowper Powys, The Real and the Ideal, reprinted from Spain and the World, Supplement, May, 1938
Rosemary Manning Alyse Gregory: A Biographical Sketch based on her Published and Private Writings
Reviews
- T.F Powys Mr Tasker's Gods, William Hunter The Novels and Stories of T.F Powys. RACHEL TRICKETT
- Kenneth White The Life-Technique of John Cowper Powys. GLEN CAVALIERO
The Powys Family Tree composed by Clare Stephens
Odds and Ends
Notes on Contributors

Number 4, Winter/Spring 1978/1979

Editorial (Plates A and B)
T.F Powys No Wine: a story
Glen Cavaliero T.F Powys in Dorset: a poem
Llewelyn Powys Conversations with Theodore, 1931 (Plate C)
Gerard Casey Three Christian Brothers
Timothy Hyman John Cowper Powys and Religion: Dostoievsky as the type of the Prophetic Artist
J. M. Turner Life Illusion and Stupid Being
Peter Easingwood John Cowper Powys and The Pleasures of Literature
Jeremy Hooker T.F Powys: “The Bass Note”
Ian Hamilton T.F Powys and the Bible
Patricia Vaughan Dawson The Brazen Head Sculptures and Etchings (Plates 1 to 8)
Sonia Tilson John Cowper Powys and Kenneth Hopkins
Ned Thomas Obstinate Cymric
Elmar Schenkel John Cowper Powys: The Literary Reception in Germany
Reviews
- G. Wilson Knight The Saturnian Quest: John Cowper Powys — A Study of his Prose Works. ROLAND MATHIAS
Letters to the Editor
Notes on Contributors

Number 5, Summer 1979, Volume II i

Editorial
Glen Cavaliero Sylvia Townsend Warner: an appreciation
Sylvia Townsend Warner Theodore Powys and Some Friends at East Chaldon, 1922--1927: A Narrative and Some Letters
Harry Coombes Mr. Tasker's Gods
Martyn Branford The Starting Point: The Early Fiction of T.F Powys and Kate Roberts
Michel Pouillard T.F Powys and the Theatre
Carole Coates Gerda and Christie
Charles Lock “'‘Multiverse’ . . . language which makes language impossible”
G. Wilson Knight A Preface Composed for Ichiro Hara's Translation of Mortal Strife
T.J. Diffey Poems for John Cowper Powys
Anthony Dyer William Powys: an appreciation
Reviews
- Robert Gittings and Jo Manton The Second Mrs. Hardy. F. B. PINION
- Roland Mathias The Hollowed-Out Elder Stalk: John Cowper Powys as Poet. BERNARD JONES
- Jeremy Hooker John Cowper Powys and David Jones: A Comparative Study. DAVID BLAMIRES
Letters to the Editor
Notes on Contributors

Number 6, Winter/Spring 1979/80, Volume II ii

Editorial
Peter Easingwood John Cowper Powys and America
Marguerite Tjader John Cowper Powys and Theodore Dreiser: A Friendship
Norman Bryson Universe and “Multiverse”: John Cowper Powys as a Critic of Dreiser's Fiction
John Cowper Powys Four Essays on Dreiser: Theodore Dreiser [The ‘Genius’] (1915), An American Tragedy (1926), Dreiser (1932), Introduction to Notes on Life (1946)
John Cowper Powys Elusive America (1927), Farewell to America (1935)
Ned Lukacher Notre-Homme-des-Fleurs: Wolf Solent’s Metaphoric Legends
Jack Clemo Mappowder Revisited
Peter John Foss Llewelyn Powys: Towards a Reconsideration
Letters to the Editor
Reviews
- Jay Martin Always Merry and Bright / The Life of Henry Miller / An Unauthorised Biography. ARNOLD GOLDMAN
- Roland Mathias Snipe's Castle. LESLIE NORRIS
- Glen Cavaliero A Reading of E. M. Forster. RICHARD PARKINSON
- Gamel Woolsey Twenty Eight Sonnets; The Last Leaf Falls; Middle Earth. SALLY JONES
- Kenneth Hopkins Llewelyn Powys, An Essay. ELIZABETH HARVEY
- Kim Taplin The English Path. JEREMY HOOKER
Notes on Contributors

Number 7, Winter 1980, Volume II iii

Editorial
Mary Casey A Tribute by Glen Cavaliero
Mary Casey Poems for her uncles and aunts
Cedric Hentschel The Improbable Belligerent: The Role of John Cowper Powys in Two World Wars
Ichiro Hara John Cowper Powys and Zen
Cicely Hill “Susukeshi Hina Mo”: John Cowper Powys and the Chuang-Tse Legacy
John Cowper Powys The Philosopher Kwang (1923)
Ian Hughes Allusion, Illusion, and Reality: Fact and Fiction in Wolf Solent
John Cowper Powys Wolf Solent: a letter to his brother Llewelyn
Sylvia Townsend Warner East Chaldon and T.F Powys
Glen Cavaliero The Powys Family and Dorset
Marius Buning Mappowder Revisited: T.F Powys’s Reading in Retirement
Denys Val Baker The Powys Family: Some Memories of the Mid-Forties
Letters to the Editor
Reviews
- Belinda Humfrey, ed. Recollections of the Powys Brothers. JEREMY HOOKER
- Keith Sagar The Life of D. H. Lawrence: An Illustrated Biography. JOHN WORTHEN
- Myron Matlaw, ed. American Popular Entertainment: Papers and Proceedings of the Conference on the History of American Popular Entertainment (Lincoln Center, 1977). PETER DAVISON
- V. S. Pritchett The Myth Makers. T.J. WINNIFRITH
- Robert Gittings The Older Hardy. T.R.M. CREIGHTON
- Phyllis Rose Woman of Letters: A Life of Virginia Woolf. ALLEN McLAURIN
- Charles Osborne W. H. Auden, The Life of a Poet. LAWRENCE NORMAND
- Gerald Brenan Thoughts in a Dry Season: A Miscellany. JOHN BATCHELOR
- John Ackerman Welsh Dylan. JOHN PRESS
Notes on Contributors

Number 8, 1980/81, Volume II iv

Editorial
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)
Emyr Humphreys A Perpetual Curate
John Hodgson On Reading Porius
Ben Jones John Cowper Powys’s Literary Criticism: Continuity and Context
Denis Lane John Cowper Powys, Thomas Hardy and the Faces of Nature
Mary Barham Johnson The Powys Mother
J. E. Roberts Two Photographs of John Cowper Powys
Gamel Woolsey to Alyse Gregory: Some Letters 1930-1957, edited by Kenneth Hopkins
Reviews
- M. Krissdóttir John Cowper Powys and the Magical Quest. BEN JONES
- Sylvia Townsend Warner Twelve Poems. CLAlRE HARMAN
- Brian Finney Christopher Isherwood, A Critical Biography. BERNARD BERGONZI
- Frank Gloversmith, ed. Class, Culture and Social Change: A New View of the 1930s. PETER MILES
- Brian Lee Theory and Personality: The Significance of T. S. Eliot’s Criticism. PATRICK PARRINDER
- Tom Earley Rebel’s Progress. GILLIAN CLARKE
- R.L. Caserio Plot, Story and the Novel: From Dickens and Poe to the Modern Period. PHILIP BENTLEY
Notes on Contributors

Number 9, 1981/1982, Volume III i

Editorial
John Cowper Powys Glastonbury: “Author's Review”, 1932
Penny Smith The “Cave of the man-eating Mothers”: its location in A Glastonbury Romance
Ned Lukacher “Between Philology and Psychology”: Cronos, Dostoievsky and the Language of Myth in John Cowper Powys’s A Glastonbury Romance
John Hodgson Springtime Out of Winter: John Cowper Powys, A Glastonbury Romance and Spengler
John Cowper Powys Sacco-Vanzetti and Epochs, The Moon over Megalopolis, 1929
John Thomas “The King Edgar Chapel Man”: Bond, Glastonbury, and the ‘Alternative’ Theory of Gothic Architecture
Peter Foss Llewelyn Powys: The Heart of Darkness
Two portrait sketches:
- Llewelyn Powys, 1930, by Reginald Marsh, with information by Philip Larkin
- T.F Powys, 1924, by Clifford Webb, with a reminiscence by Mrs. Clifford Webb (Ella Monkton)
Theodora Scutt Theodore Powys, 1934-1953
Ronald Hall The Old Man With The Praise (1952)
Reviews
- Andrew Motion The Poetry of Edward Thomas. R. GEORGE THOMAS
- Donald Mitchell Britten and Auden in the Thirties: The Year 1936. NEIL TIERNEY
- Walter Allen The Short Story in English. J.I.M. STEWART
- Michael Rosenthal Virginia Woolf. ALLEN SAMUELS
- Jeremy Hawthorn Joseph Conrad: Language and Fictional Self-Consciousness. ALAN SANDISON
- Kenneth F. Day Eden Phillpotts on Dartmoor. GLEN CAVALIERO
- J. R. Lloyd Thomas Moth or Phoenix. JOHN RYDER
Notes on Contributors

Number 10, 1981/1982 (Spring 1982), Volume III ii

Editorial
J. Lawrence Mitchell Ray Garnett as Illustrator
John Williams Theodore Powys: “all good books tell the same tale”
Theodora Scutt Theodore Powys, 1934- 1953: a continuation
Stephen Powys Marks A. R. Powys: a sketch of his life and work
John Thomas The Shock of the New: A. R. Powys and Building Repair
Oliver Holt Littleton Powys
Littleton Powys Llandovery 50 years ago (1955)
John Baker John Cowper Powys in Corwen
J.C. Powys and James Hanley in Corwen, c. 1935 (photographs)
Reviews
- John Rhys Celtic Folklore Welsh and Manx. D. SIMON EVANS
- William Blissett The Long Conversation: A Memoir of David Jones. DAVID BLAMIRES
- Gunther Stuhlmann Henry Miller: Letters to Anais Nin. PARIS LEARY
- Adelaide Ross Reverie. PETER EASINGWOOD
- Patrick Grant Six Modern Authors and Problems of Belief. LIONEL ADEY
- Victoria Glendinning Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn Among Lions. ALAN MUNTON
- M. A. Screech Rabelais. TREVOR PEACH
- Rex Hunter The Saga of Sinclair. JOHN S. MACALISTER
- Paul Fussell Abroad: British Literary Travelling Between the Wars. PETER MILES
Notes on Contributors

Number 11, 1982/83, Volume III iii

Paris Leary Welsh Poem
Penny Smith “Seeking the Line of Escape”: Freedom and Freewill in John Cowper Powys’s Early Novels
John Cowper Powys “Remembrances”: Weymouth Sands (1933)
Margaret Moran The Vision and Revision of John Cowper Powys’s Weymouth Sands
Susan Huxtable Selly Mysticism, Trivia and Sensations: Observations on Weymouth Sands
Elizabeth Tombs Women in Weymouth Sands
John Cowper Powys James Joyce (1932)
Elmar Schenkel A Sense of Connectedness: Hugo Kükelhaus and John Cowper Powys
Bernard Jones Some Observations on Hardy's Letters
Reviews
- Jeremy Hooker Englishman’s Road. ROY FISHER
- Edna Longley A Language Not To Be Betrayed, Roland Gant Edward Thomas on the Countryside. KIM TAPLIN
- Gamel Woolsey The Weight of Human Hours. JOHN S. MACALISTER
- Kenneth Hopkins Collected Poems 1935-1965, Collected Poems 1966-1977. JEREMY HOOKER
- Humphrey Carpenter W. H. Auden: A Biography, Edward Mendelson Early Auden. LAWRENCE NORMAND
- John Batchelor The Edwardian Novelists. CHRISTOPHER ROLFE
- Robert Green Ford Madox Ford: Prose and Politics. CEDRIC HENTSCHEL
- Julian Symons Critical Observations. STUART LAING
Letters to the Editor
Notes on Contributors

Number 12, 1982/1983 (Spring 1983), Volume III iv

Editorial
Michel Pouillard Woman and Women in T.F. Powys’s Novels
lan Hughes A Poor Ragged Maiden: The Textual History of Maiden Castle
T.J. Diffey John Cowper Powys and Thomas Hardy
Furse Swann Thomas Hardy and the “Appetite for Joy”
Charles Lock Confessions of Two Brothers
Peter Foss The Confessions of a Diarist
Gamel Woolsey A Selection of her Letters to Llewelyn Powys 1930-1939 edited by KENNETH HOPKINS
Alyse Gregory Some Letters to Mary Casey
Reviews
- Mary Casey Full Circle; Christophoros. KIM TAPLIN
- 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
- Rex Hunter And Tomorrow Comes. PETER FOSS
- Sydney Bolt A Preface to James Joyce; Dominic Manganiello Joyce’s Politics. MARIUS BUNING
- Helen Gardner In Defence of the Imagination. ALLEN SAMUELS
- Claire Harman, ed. The Collected Poems of Sylvia Townsend Warner. BERNARD JONES
- Kathleen Raine, ed. Brian Keeble The Inner Journey of the Poet; Sandra Anstey, ed. Critical Writings on R. S. Thomas. SIMON BARKER
Publications Received:
- Bernard Jones William Barnes; Thomas Hardy. G.CAVALIERO
- Jeremy Hooker and Gweno Lewis, eds. Selected Poems of Alun Lewis. JOHN IDRIS JONES
Reports and Requests
Notes on Contributors

Number 13, 1983/1984, Volume IV i

Martin Steinmann Jr T.F. Powys and Tradition
Patrick Parrinder The Age of Fantasy
Elizabeth Barrett “The Borderland of the Miraculous”: Romance and Naturalism in John Cowper Powys’s A Glastonbury Romance
Tony Head Method in Madness: Sublimity and Bathos in the Major Novels of John Cowper Powys
Ben Jones Who Converted Gaffer Barge?
G. Wilson Knight John Cowper Powys’s “The Ridge”: an Interpretation
Tom Copeman Hart A Printer and a Powys
Charles Rogers Recollections of a Montacute Boot Boy
Letters to the Editor
Reviews
- C. A. Coates John Cowper Powys in Search of a Landscape. JEREMY HOOKER
- Bertrand Russell & J.C. Powys; introd. M. Moran Is Modern Marriage a Failure? CARL SPADONI
- J. A. W. Bennett Poetry of the Passion: Studies in Twelve Centuries of English Verse. LIONEL ADEY
- Ed. L. Huber & J. J. White Musil in Focus. CEDRIC HENTSCHEL
- Allon White The Uses of Obscurity & The Fiction of Early Modernism. PETER CONRADI
- Leonard Unger Eliot's Compound Ghosts: Influence and Confluence. JOHN WORTHEN
- Gillian E. Hanscombe The Art of Life: Dorothy Richardson and the Development of Feminist Consciousness. ALLEN McLAURIN
- Daniel Farson Henry: An Appreciation of Henry Williamson. H. P. COLLINS
- Richard Johnstone The Will to Believe: Novelists of the Nineteen-thirties. PETER MILES
- T. R. Fyvel George Orwell: A Personal Memoir. PETER DAVISON
- Frances Donaldson P. G. Wodehouse: The Authorized Biography. J. N. DAWSON
- Thomas Merton; ed. Brother Patrick Hart The Literary Essays. THOMAS WOODMAN
Notes on Contributors

Number 14, 1984, Volume IV ii

Llewelyn Powys The Necrophilias (with a Note by Peter J. Foss)
Glen Cavaliero The Novels of Phyllis Paul
Eigra Lewis Roberts Words that Burn
A. Thomas Southwick John Cowper Powys in America: The Letters to Marian
J.C. Powys to Marian on A.R. Powys’s death: a letter
L.A. Powys A Poem for his Father, John Cowper Powys, 8 October 1948
T.J. Diffey John Cowper Powys: Some Thoughts about his Imagination
Roy Fisher A Poem from Diversions, Second Series
Some letters from J.C. Powys in Wales to Hal and Violet Trovillion, Illinois (1949-1961)
Wolfgang Kehr J.C. Powys in Conversation, Corwen, 1954
Rolf Italiaander An award to J.C. Powys, Blaenau Ffestiniog, 1957
A.J. Brothers J.C. Powys on Aristophanes’s Acharnians: an Introduction
John Cowper Powys The Acharnians (c. 1948-1950)
Laurence Coupe The Comic Vision of T.F Powys
Tributes to Derrick Stephens
Cedric Hentschel Review article: The Brothers Powys, Richard Perceval Graves
Reviews
- Llewelyn Powys Dorset Essays: Earth Memories. PAUL ROBERTS
- Thomas Jackson Rice English Fiction, 1900-1950 Vol. II. MARGARET EATON
- Michael Millgate Thomas Hardy: A Biography. JOAN GRUNDY
- Graham Holderness D.H. Lawrence: History, Ideology and Fiction. JOHN WORTHEN
- Edward Thomas Wales. ROLAND MATHIAS
- Anthony Berridge, ed. The Letters of Edward Thomas to Jesse Berridge. R. GEORGE THOMAS
- Harry Blamires Twentieth-Century Light Literature. ANDREW HASSAM
- Ann Matsa American Literature in Context IV, 1900-1950. ALLEN SAMUELS
- J. Hillis Miller Fiction and Repetition. RICHARD MACHIN
- Carol Jones Late in the Day. ISLWYN FFOWC ELIS
Notes on Contributors

Number 15, 1984/1985, Volume IV iii

Editorial
John Cowper Powys Llewelyn Powys, Writer (from “Four Brothers”, 1925)
Ian Hughes A Virgin with No Name: The Beginnings of Maiden Castle
Susan Rands Maiden Castle: Symbol, Theme and Personality
Angela Blaen Maiden Castle and the Celtic Calendar
John Cowper Powys The Magic of Detachment (1933) Egotism and Impersonality (1934)
R.G. Felton: To J.C. Powys
David Goodway The Politics of John Cowper Powys
Jack V. Barbera A Powys’s Bridal Night and Stevie Smith
Bryn Gunnell T.F Powys in his Time
Simon Barker “Embroiderers of Tales”, Review-article: Anglo-Welsh Poetry 1480-1980 Raymond Garlick & Roland Mathias, eds.
Reviews
- Roland Mathias Burning Brambles: Selected Poems 1944-1979. EDWIN MORGAN
- J. Lawrence Mitchell T.F Powys. MARIUS BUNING
- C. Hentschel, ed. Powys to Eric the Red: The Letters . . . to Sven Erik Täckmark; R. Blackmore, ed. Powys to Knight: The Letters . . . to G. R. Wilson Knight. MORINE KRISSDOTTIR
- C. Hentschel, ed. Powys to Eric the Red: The Letters . . . to Sven Erik Täckmark. GÖRAN BÖRG (tr.) LAURIE THOMPSON
- Anne Wilson Traditional Romance and Tale. MALDWYN MILLS
- John Pilling Autobiography and Imagination: Studies in Self-Scrutiny. ANDREW HASSAM
- Frances Spalding Vanessa Bell. JUDITH COLLINS
- C. A. Hankin, ed. The Letters of John Middleton Murray to Katherine Mansfield. H.P. COLLINS
- Glen Cavaliero Charles Williams, Poet of Theology. MURRAY J. EVANS
- Bernard Oldsey, ed. Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 15: British Novelists, 1930-1959. PETER MILES
Letter to the Editor: Ichiro Hara: A Tribute
Notes on Contributors

Number 16, 1985, Volume IV iv

Theo Dunnet J.C. Powys in the 1890s (with 14 photographs)
Glen Cavaliero John Cowper Powys: Space Traveller
N.L. Rothman “A Spiritual Tragedy”: an American review of Wolf Solent, 1929
Paul Roberts Becoming Mr Nobody: Personality and the Philosophy of John Cowper Powys
Morine Krissdottir G.R. Wilson Knight: “Master in Discernment”
John Cowper Powys D.H. Lawrence (1932)
Letters to the Editor
Reviews
- G. Wilson Knight Klinton Top. PETER FOSS
- Ralph W. V. Elliott Thomas Hardy's English. BERNARD JONES
- Donald Stanford, ed. John Masefield: Letters to Margaret Bridges. R. GEORGE THOMAS
- John Holloway The Slumber of Apollo: Reflections on Recent Art. J. R. WATSON
- Lynette Hunter George Orwell: The Search for a Voice. ALLEN SAMUELS
- Jeremy Hawthorn, ed. Criticism and Critical Theory. CATHERINE BELSEY
- Richard Poole, ed. Fiction as Truth: Selected Literary Writings by Richard Hughes. PAUL BENNETT MORGAN
- Jeremy Hooker Poetry of Place: Essays and Reviews 1970-1981. PETER LEWIS
- Emyr Humphreys The Taliesin Tradition. CARY ARCHARD
Notes on Contributors

Number 17, 1985, Volume V i

Roland Mathias John Cowper Powys and ‘Wales’. A Limited Study
Colin Style On Hardy's Sacred Ground: John Cowper Powys’s Weymouth Sands
Peter G. Christensen Middlemarch: A Point of Reference in Weymouth Sands
Margaret Moran Premonitory Hints and Embryo Suggestions in J.C. Powys’s Wood and Stone and Rodmoor
G. Wilson Knight: The Editor’s Preface
Francis Berry G. Wilson Knight: His Life and Work
Reviews
- Gillian Clarke Selected Poems. ANN STEVENSON
- Gwyn A. Williams When was Wales? A History of the Welsh; Wynford Vaughan Thomas Wales: A History. PAUL BENNETT MORGAN
- John Cowper Powys Paddock Calls. ANTHONY HEAD
- Valentine Ackland For Sylvia: An Honest Account. CLAIRE HARMAN
- Kenneth Hopkins, ed. The Letters of Gamel Woolsey To Llewelyn Powys, 1900-1939; The Collected Poems of Gamel Woolsey. JOHN HARRIS [misspelt as HARRIES]
- Richard Taylor, ed. Emma Hardy Diaries. BARRIE SAYWOOD
- Patrick Parrinder James Joyce. WILLIAM BAKER
- Kenneth Hopkins Bertrand Russell and Gamel Woolsey. CARL SPADONI
Letters to the Editor
Notes on Contributors

Number 18, 1986, Volume V ii

Glen Cavaliero The Comic Spirit in the Novels and Fantasies of John Cowper Powys
Meirion Pennar In Search of the Real Glendower
John [Cowper] Powys Mordaunt Ap Gryfith. A tale (A schoolboy's incomplete manuscript romance, introduced by Belinda Humfrey)
Ian Hughes The Genre of John Cowper Powys’s Major Novels
Susan Rands Rodmoor: Aspects of its Provenance and Direction
Jacqueline Peltier American Landscapes in John Cowper Powys’s Letters to His Brother Llewelyn
John Cowper Powys Drought and the River Bed (a poem)
T.J. Diffey A Visit to Mrs Lily Brooks, 5 June 1985
Angela Blaen The Wisht Hound Tradition and T.F Powys’s Mark Only
Editor's Obituary Note: Philip Larkin and H. P. Collins
Reviews
- R. S. Thomas Ingrowing Thoughts. STEPHEN BANN
- Michael Carter George Orwell and the Problem of Authentic Existence. BERNARD CRICK
- Llewelyn Powys Black Laughter. JOHN HARRIS
- T. W. Rolleston Myths and Legends of the Celtic Race. DEREK BRYCE
- D. Helen Allday Insurrection in Wales. DAFYDD HUW EVANS
- Ruth Danon Work in the English Novel: The Myth of Vocation. GRAHAM HOLDERNESS
- P. N. Furbank Pound. J. P. SULLIVAN
- Patrick Bridgwater The German Poets of the First World War. GORDON WILLIAMS
- Roderick Watson MacDiarmid. EDWIN MORGAN
Publications Received
Notes on Contributors

Number 19, 1986, Volume V iii

J. Lawrence Mitchell The Education of T.F Powys
Michael Ballin John Cowper Powys’s Porius and the Dialectic of History
Dorothee von Huene Greenberg Stone Worship and the Search for Community in John Cowper Powys’s A Glastonbury Romance
Oliver Marlow Wilkinson The Letters of Frances and Jack
Frederick Davies Recollections of John Cowper Powys and Phyllis Playter: Part One
Notices
Reviews
- T.F Powys Mr Weston's Good Wine. MARTIN STEINMANN
- Roy Fisher A Furnace. JEREMY HOOKER
- Edward Larrissy William Blake. DESIRÉE HIRST
- David Punter The Hidden Script: Writing and the Unconscious. LAWRENCE NORMAND
- Raymond H. Thompson The Return from Avalon: A Study of the Arthurian Legend in Modern Fiction. T. A. SHIPPEY
- Andrew Rutherford, ed. Early Verse by Rudyard Kipling 1879-1889. MARTIN GREEN
- R. George Thomas Edward Thomas: A Portrait. LESLIE NORRIS
- Gwyn Thomas Sorrow For Thy Sons. PETER MILES
- Fleur Adcock Selected Poems. GILLIAN CLARKE
- Roger Fowler Linguistic Criticism. ANDREW HASSAM
Notes on Contributors

Number 20, 1987, Volume V iv

T.F Powys This Is Thyself Introduced and annotated by J. Lawrence Mitchell
Susan Rands Aspects of the Topography of A Glastonbury Romance
Margaret Woolf J . C. Powys’s Autobiography in the light of The Letters to His Brother Llewelyn
Frederick Davies Recollections of John Cowper Powys and Phyllis Playter: Part Two
Glen Cavaliero, Gordon Wynne, Margaret Woolf Lucy Amelia Penny (née Powys) 1890-1986
Alyse Gregory Philippa Powys
Frank Warren Winter at Chydyok: A Reverie
Reviews
- H.W. Fawkner The Ecstatic World of John Cowper Powys. T.J. DIFFEY
- A.O.J. Cockshut The Art of Autobiography. BARBARA DENNIS
- Marius Buning T.F Powys: A Modern Allegorist. JEREMY HOOKER
- John Cowper Powys Three Fantasies. IAN HUGHES
- Louis L. Martz, ed. George Herbert and Henry Vaughan. HELEN WILCOX
- J.B. Bullen The Expressive Eye: Fiction and Perception in the Work of Thomas Hardy. ARLENE M. JACKSON
- Trevor Rowley The Landscape of the Welsh Marches. PAUL BENNETT MORGAN
- Leslie Norris Selected Poems. ROBERT MINHINNICK
- John Cowper Powys Horned Poppies . . . BERNARD JONES
Notes on Contributors

Number 21, 1987-1988, Volume VI i

Tony Brown “On the Screen of Eternity”: Some Aspects of R.S. Thomas’s Prose
Charles Lock “To Ravage and Redeem”: Maiden Castle and the Violation of Form
Peter Christensen Wessex 1272: History in John Cowper Powys’s The Brazen Head
H.W. Fawkner John Cowper Powys and Ontotheology
Ben Jones John Cowper Powys in Mexico
Patricia Vaughan Dawson Etchings and Sculptures Suggested by Scenes from J.C. Powys’s Porius
Reviews
- Mary Casey The Kingfisher's Wing. GLEN CAVALIERO
- Vilhelm Ekelund The Second Light. CEDRIC HENTSCHEL
- Noel Kennedy Thomas Henry Vaughan: Poet of Revelation. GARETH ROBERTS
- Joan H. Harding From Fox Howe to Fairy Hill: Matthew Arnold's Celtic Connections. BARBARA DENNIS
- John Halperin Gissing: A Life in Books. ANDREW HASSAM
- Caitlin Thomas with George Tremlett Caitlin: Life with Dylan Thomas. JAMES A. DAVIES
- Meic Stephens, ed. The Oxford Companion to the Literature of Wales. PETER DAVISON
- Roland Mathias Anglo-Welsh Literature: An Illustrated History. JOHN HARRIS
- Richard Poole Richard Hughes: Novelist. PAUL BENNETT MORGAN
- Randall Stevenson The British Novel Since the Thirties: An Introduction. WILLIAM BAKER
- Jeremy Hooker The Presence of the Past. JOHN WILLIAMS
Notes on Contributors

Number 22, 1988, Volume VI ii

Robin L. Wood John Cowper Powys’s Welsh Mythology: Gods and Manias
W. J. Keith The Archaeological Background to Maiden Castle
Penny Smith Works Without Names: John Cowper Powys’s Early, Unpublished Fiction (Part 1)
Don Dale-Jones, ed. Littleton Powys to A. G. Prys-Jones
Peter J. Foss The Religion of an Atheist: The Dawn at Seaton
Llewelyn Powys The Dawn
Deborah Wills Problems of Ontology and Omnipotence in Mr. Weston's Good Wine
Penny Smith Hilda Doolittle and Frances Gregg
Kenneth Hopkins: a notice and a memoir
Reviews
- Richard Ellmann Oscar Wilde. JOHN ACKERMAN
- John E. Van Domelen Tarzan of Athens: A Biographical Study of G. Wilson Knight. PETER J. FOSS
- Tony Curtis, ed. Wales: The Imagined Nation: Essays in Cultural and National Identity . DEIAN HOPKIN
- Brenda Chamberlain Tide-race. CERIDWEN LLOYD-MORGAN
- J.P. Ward The Poetry of R. S. Thomas. SIMON BARKER
- Barbara Dennis and David Skilton, ed. Reform and Intellectual Debate in Victorian England. PHILIP COLLINS
- Joseph Carroll Wallace Stevens’s Supreme Fiction: A New Romanticism. H.W. FAWKNER
- Gwyn Thomas and Kevin Crossley Holland The Quest for Olwen. Illustrated by Margaret Jones. C.W. MARX
Notes on Contributors

Number 23, 1989, Volume VI iii

J. Lawrence Mitchell “One foot in the furrow”: T.F Powys in East Anglia
Charles Lock Weymouth Sands and the Matter of Representation: Live Dogs, Stuffed Animals and Unsealed Stones
Penny Smith Works Without Names: John Cowper Powys’s Early, Unpublished Fiction (Part 2)
H.W. Fawkner Owen Glendower: Love at the Margins of Being
Oliver Marlow Wilkinson Louis Wilkinson
Reviews
- Judith Stinton Chaldon Herring: The Powys Circle in a Dorset Village. CLAIRE HARMAN
- Caradoc Evans My People, ed. John Harris. LESLIE NORRIS
- W.J. Keith Regions of the Imagination: The Development of the British Rural Novel. PETER EASINGWOOD
- R. S. Thomas Welsh Airs; Oliver Reynolds The Player Queen's Wife. EDWIN MORGAN
- Gillian Hanscombe and Virginia L. Smyers Writing for their Lives: the Modernist Women, 1910-1940. LYN PYKETT
- Roy Fisher Poems 1955-1987. DOUGLAS HOUSTON
- Dai Smith, ed. Writer's World: Gwyn Thomas 1913-81. PETER MILES
Notes on Contributors
Cover design: The Key of the Field, by R. A. Garnett (1930)

Number 24, 1989, Volume VI iv

Subi Swift An Eye for Interiors: The Influence of Genre Painting on the Work of John Cowper Powys
Susan Rands “This Super-subtle Interpreter”: Aspects of Walter Pater's Influence on John Cowper Powys
Penny Smith “A Kind of Prostitution”: John Cowper Powys’s Dependent Women
Tony Hallett Ramsguard to Blacksod: The Setting of Wolf Solent
Jacqueline Peltier John Cowper Powys en français dans le texte
Stephen Carroll A Burpham Miscellany
Gerard Casey Lucy, Katie, Will: A Pattern of Memories
Raymond Garlick, Roland Mathias, Jonah Jones and others John Cowper Powys: an Impression. A Radio Programme, June 1957
Reviews
- Review article: Beckett in the Eighties. MARIUS BUNING
- Michael Parnell Laughter from the Dark, A Life of Gwyn Thomas. IAN BELL
- Jean Hartley Philip Larkin, the Marvell Press and Me. GWYN WALTERS
- Jonathan Barker, ed. The Art of Edward Thomas. LAWRENCE NORMAND
- Peter Buitenhuis The Great War of Words: Literature as Propaganda, 1914-18 and after. JEFFREY RICHARDS
- Idris Parry Speak Silence: Essays. DAVID BLAMIRES
- Hans Petersen, ed. Erkundungen: 28 Walisische Erzähler. ANTHONY BUSHELL
Notes on Contributors
Cover: John Cowper Powys in Sussex: a watercolour by Tim Kahane
(Courtesy of Stephen Carroll)

Number 25, 1990, Volume VIII i [properly VII i]

Mark Patterson The Origins of John Cowper Powys’s Myrddin Wyllt
Peter Christensen The Marriage of Myth and History in John Cowper Powys’s Porius
Danielle Price Repetitions: Weston and Pickwick
Gloria G. Fromm Epistolary Counterpoint: The Letters of Dorothy Richardson and John Cowper Powys
David Gerard, ed., “Ever Your Faithful Friend”: Letters from John Cowper Powys to James Hanley
Tony Hallett Ramsgard to Blacksod, continued
Susan Rands The Gateposts of Stalbridge Park
Jean E. Bellamy The Powys Monuments
Reviews
- John Cowper Powys Maiden Castle Introduction by Ian Hughes. GLEN CAVALIERO
- M.E. Leaska & J. Phillips, eds. Violet to Vita: The Letters of Violet Trefusis to Vita Sackville-West. SUZANNE RAITT
- P.J. Kavanagh People and Places: A Selection 1975-1987. PAUL BENNETT MORGAN
- Benjamin Stassen, ed. John Cowper Powys (Plein Chant, 42-43). CERIDWEN LLOYD-MORGAN
- Claire Harman Sylvia Townsend Warner, a Biography. DESIREE HIRST
- Larry Benson, ed. The Riverside Chaucer. ALCUIN BLAMIRES
- Louis Martz, ed. H.D. Selected Poems ROSALIND CARROLL
- A.N. Wilson Eminent Victorians DONALD HAWES
- Gillian Clarke Lettering in the Rumour. MERCER SIMPSON
Notes on Contributors
USA/Canada PhD Theses, 1954-1989
Cover: Margaret Jones, illustration to The Lady of the Fountain: the blackman (courtesy the Editor)

Number 26, 1991, Volume VIII ii [properly VII ii]

John Williams T.F. Powys: Absence and Exile in Innocent Birds
J.S. Rodman Plotting Wolf Solent
Janina Nordius Behind the Pigsty: On the Duplicity of Solitude in Wolf Solent
H.W. Fawkner Atlanticism: John Cowper Powys and Mineralogy
Ernst Verbeek John Cowper Powys: Tempting the Gods
Susan Rands John Cowper Powys’s The Inmates, an Allegory
Carys Richards Some Recollections of Phyllis Playter
Letter to the Editor: Timothy Hyman
Reviews
- Charles Doyle Richard Aldington: A Biography. PETER MILES
- Gerard Casey Echoes. JOHN WILLIAMS
- Kim Taplin Tongues in Trees: Studies in Literature and Ecology. MICHAEL BELL
- Lionel Gossman Between History and Literature. R.C. RICHARDSON
- Charles Hobday Edgell Rickword: A Poet at War. GORDON WILLIAMS
- Belinda Humfrey, ed. John Cowper Powys’s Wolf Solent: Critical Studies. GLEN CAVALIERO
Notices: Den otidsenlige och den aktuelle: John Cowper Powys (1872-1963), Sven Eric Täckmarks specialsamling. B. Humfrey
Notes on Contributors

Numbers 27 & 28, 1992-93, Volume VII iii & iv

J. Lawrence Mitchell In search of T.F. Powys: the visual record
T.F. Powys: A Checklist of drawings, paintings and photographic portraits
T.F. Powys A story: The White Spider
Jeremy Hooker Thomas Hardy, John Cowper Powys and Wessex
Edmund Cusick A Study in the Symbolism of John Cowper Powys’s Mandragora (1917)
Susan Rands The Topicality of A Glastonbury Romance
Belinda Humfrey Kraken to Sea Serpent: John Cowper Powys and Huw Menai
John Cowper Powys to Huw Menai: Selected Letters, 1939-1947
Littleton Alfred Powys A Talk between Kathleen Tranter and Susan Rands
Reviews
- Geoffrey Ashe Mythology of the British Isles; Graeme Fife Arthur the King: The Theme Behind the Legends. JOHN MATTHEWS
- Anne Wilson The Magical Quest: the Use of Magic in Arthurian Romance. MALDWYN MILLS
- Linda Gowans Cei and the Arthurian Legend; Richard Barber, ed. Arthurian Literature IX. RACHEL BROMWICH
- John S. Mebane Renaissance Magic and the Return of the Golden Age: The Occult Tradition and Marlowe, Jonson and Shakespeare. GARETH ROBERTS
- Letters to Lalage: The Letters of Charles Williams to Lois Lang-Sims Introduction by Glen Cavaliero. STEPHEN MEDCALF
- Fredric S. Colwell Rivermen: A Romantic Iconography of the River and the Source. MICHAEL O'NEILL
- William Anderson Green Man: The Archetype of our Oneness with the Earth. TONY HALLETT
- 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
- Peter Faulkner, ed. William Morris, Selected Poems. BARBARA DENNIS
Notes on Contributors

Numbers 29 & 30, Volume VIII i & ii

Geoffrey Gunther John Cowper Powys’s Most Puzzling Novel
Peter G. Christensen The Rôle of Fate in History: Owen Glendower as Epic Historical Novel
Oliver and Christopher Wilkinson A Forging by Fire: John Cowper Powys and Frances Gregg
H.W. Fawkner The Mineralogical Microplatonism of John Cowper Powys
John W. Dowding John Cowper Powys’s ‘Six Precious Words’
Judith Stinton Chaldon Herring: A Place Apart
L.R. Leavis T.F Powys in Perspective: The Significance of Father Adam [1919] and The Market Bell [1924]
Victor Golightly Gwyn Thomas’s ‘Duality’
Robert Mighall Arcadian Perspectives: Llewelyn Powys and George Orwell
Rowena Griffiths A Rose for the Mistress Rowena
Herbert Williams JCP on TV
Notes on Contributors

Numbers 31 & 32, 1997, Volume VIII iii & iv

Editorial: Raymond Garlick and John Cowper Powys
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))
Joe Boulter John Cowper Powys’s [De]construction of Welsh Identity in Porius
Robin Wood Queer Attacks and Fits: Epilepsy and Ecstatic Experiences in the Novels of J.C. Powys
Jacqueline Peltier Powys - and the Pleasures of Proust?
Susan Rands The Glastonbury Libel
Elmar Schenkel From Powys to Pooh: Some Versions of Taoism in British and American Literature
John Cowper Powys Poem: ‘The Occult Madonna’ (1906)
Joseph Resnick Remembering John Cowper Powys
Reviews
- Gloria G. Fromm, ed. Windows on Modernism: Selected Letters of Dorothy Richardson. ROBIN WOOD
- Anthony Head, ed. Powys to Sea Eagle: The Letters of John Cowper Powys to Philippa Powys. J.S. RODMAN
- Oliver and Christopher Wilkinson, eds Jack and Frances: The Love Letters of John Cowper Powys and Frances Gregg, 2 vols. PETER EASINGWOOD
- Frances Gregg The Mystic Leeway ed. Ben Jones. BELINDA HUMFREY
- Morine Krissdottir, ed. Petrushka and the Dancer, The Diaries of John Cowper Powys, 1929-1939. RODNEY AITCHTEY
- Glen Cavaliero A Steeple on a Hill. K. E. SMITH
Notes on Contributors
Cover photograph: John Cowper Powys in the doorway of 1 Waterloo, Blaenau Ffestiniog (Photograph: Raymond Garlick)