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Introduction

A Resource for both Private and Public Research

The Powys Society has long had an important role in the field of literary scholarship; and this area of the site is primarily intended as a resource for those both within and without the Society who are actively engaged in private or public research.

 To explore information about the Powys Society Collection (on semi-permanent loan to the Dorset County Museum in Dorchester), please click on the above link.

 

Reader's Guides

At the Powys Conference at Llangollen in August 2003, Professor W. J. Keith deposited with the Hon. Secretary copies of two aids to Porius, with the intention that these should be placed in the Society's archive and made accessible to any member or serious student wishing to consult them. He has since supplied reader's guides to A Glastonbury Romance, Autobiography, and Owen Glendower. Jacqueline Peltier has since worked with Professor Keith to make these reader's guides available as PDF files which can be downloaded and printed as booklets (for further details please visit Jacqueline Peltier's website).

 

Porius
The first and more important of the 'Porius' aids is entitled "John Cowper Powys's Porius: A Reader's Companion" updated April, 2009. It is an alphabetical listing along the lines of the late Robert Kunkel's "John Cowper Powys's Porius: A Partial Glossary of Proper Names" published in the 1998 Powys Journal, and attempts in addition to identify literary and biblical quotations, to explain references in Welsh, Greek, Latin and other languages, with added information Professor Keith found helpful in coming to terms with the novel/romance. The annotations are keyed to the complete text of Porius published by Colgate University Press in 1994.

The second document entitled "The Text of Porius: Corrections and Emendations" is a listing by page-and line-number offering corrections to the imperfect text of this 1994 edition.

John Cowper Powys's Porius: A Reader's Companion (2009)

The Text of Porius: Corrections and Emendations (2003)

Glastonbury, Autobiography & Owen Glendower

John Cowper Powys's 'A Glastonbury Romance: A Reader's Companion (2005) by W.J. Keith

John Cowper Powys's 'Autobiography: A Reader's Companion (2008) by W.J. Keith with substantial assistance from Jacqueline Peltier

John Cowper Powys's Owen Glendower: A Reader’s Companion (2007) W. J. Keith

 

Professor Keith can be contacted at the following address:

W. J. Keith
University College,
University of Toronto,
Toronto, M5S 3H7,
Canada

or email him here

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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.

WOLF SOLENT

John Cowper Powys

A Powys Society Meeting

Mr Weston's Good Wine is the unusual tale of the struggle between the forces of good and evil in a small Dorset village. Its action is limited to one winter's evening when Time stands still and the bitter-sweet gift of awareness falls upon a dozen memorable characters. During the book a child knocked down by his car is miraculously brought back to life; the sign 'Mr Weston's Good Wine' lights up the sky; and the villagers soon discover that the wine he sells is no ordinary wine.

MR WESTON'S GOOD WINE

T.F. Powys

SOMERSET ESSAYS

Llewelyn Powys
Two POWYS DAYS, so far, are planned for next year: CAMBRIDGE on Saturday 24 April 2010 and DORCHESTER on Saturday 5 June 2010. Powys Society Annual Conference 2010 at the Wessex Hotel, Street, Somerset, on Friday 20th August - Sunday 22nd August
 

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