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The Powyses Revisited

     This lecture provides its audience with an introduction to the life and work of John Cowper Powys, author of A Glastonbury Romance; Theodore Powys, author of Mr. Weston's Good Wine, and a great favourite of the influential critic F.R.Leavis; and Llewelyn Powys, author of Dorset Essays and Somerset Essays.

												
												  
											 
				  
				  
 
Richard Perceval Graves is the author of The Brothers Powys and was Chairman of The Powys Society from 2001-2005. By clicking on the underlined words, you can browse the Society Web Site, which contains details of membership and of the forthcoming 2006 Conference in Sussex.

The Powys Brothers, consisting of John Cowper Powys [1872-1963], Theodore Francis Powys [1875-1953] and Llewelyn Powys [1884-1939] are one of the most remarkable literary families of modern times, and in the year 2000 Margaret Drabble declared that JCP's A Glastonbury Romance was the great novel of the twentieth century.
 

John Cowper Powys and Merlin

      This lecture is to some extent about 'The Matter of Britain', but also examines how John Cowper Powys's ideas about the nature of the Universe, which once seemed to be utterly bizarre, are increasingly much the same as those of modern Physicists. A lecture full of strange wonders.

 
Holding an audience with the spoken word

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