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THE POWYS SOCIETY welcomes general readers, academics and everyone else who appreciates the works of the Powyses or would like to discover more. Membership is open to all and Powys readers from around the world are welcome – indeed, actively encouraged - to join the Society. The aims of The Powys Society are: - To promote a wider general readership and stimulate scholarly study and discussion of the works of the Powys brothers - To actively promote an expanded universe around the Powyses - To provide a comprehensive and accurate resource on the life and works of the Powyses We welcome you to explore this website at your leisure. The site is regularly updated so please check back. Should you have any comments or suggestions please do not hesitate to make contact. (This site is best viewed using Mozilla Firefox.) "A genius – a fearless writer, who writes with reckless passion." - Margaret Drabble on John Cowper Powys "The other day I began reading A Glastonbury Romance by John Cowper Powys. My head began bursting as I read. No, I said to myself, it is impossible that any man can put all this—so much—on paper. It is super-human. . . Old John had caught the world by the throat. And lovingly and surely he squeezed every bit of beauty, of meaning, of purposeless purpose out of it." - Henry Miler in a letter to Lawrence Durrell. "Powys evoked the English landscape with an almost sexual intensity. Hardy comes to mind, but a Hardy drunk and feverish with mystical exuberance." - Philip Pullman on John Cowper Powys "Theodore Powys, the brother of Llewelyn, is a rare person." - T. E. Lawrence "T. F. Powys, that master of rural understatement whose wry humour and warmth, and whose marvellous narrational ‘pull’, are irresistible." - Ronald Blythe "Theodore Powys wrote extraordinary fables of English country life. Bloomsbury admirers hailed them as the singular works of a dark and brooding genius." - P. Wright "Llewelyn Powys is one of those rare writers who teach endurance of life as well as its enjoyment." - Philip Larkin "For when we talk of the Powyses, either individually or as a group, we do not speak of personalities merely, for their various works and characters interact with those of their readers and create new realms of experience. To adapt Auden’s poem ‘Edward Lear’, they have become a land, and those who explore it can appropriate to themselves what they find there. To that extent they themselves are witness to the Powys mystique and may justifiably feel grateful for their citizenship of this complex and endlessly accommodating province of the corporate literary imagination." From That Goblin Race: The Powys Family Mystique by Glen Cavaliero (The Powys Journal Vol. XIX 2009) |
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RODMOOR John Cowper Powys |
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GOAT GREEN T.F. Powys |
EARTH MEMORIES Llewelyn Powys |
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