Volume 32, Number 5 · March 28, 1985
Life in the Head
By John Bayley
Wolf Solent
by John Cowper Powys, with an introduction by Robertson Davies
Harper Colophon, 614 pp., $9.95 (paper)
Weymouth Sands
by John Cowper Powys, with an introduction by James Purdy
Harper Colophon, 567 pp., $8.95 (paper)
John Cowper Powys was born in 1872 in Derbyshire, England, and died in 1963 in the small Welsh village of Blaenau Ffestiniog. He grew to maturity as slowly as a tree, and his long life included more than twenty-five years spent lecturing in the US before he published anything of significance. Powys inherited the charisma of his father, a Church of England parson, and he could discourse with eloquence on almost any subject—Homer, Shakespeare, Blake, the Bible, ancient romance, and modern materialism. He had been at Cambridge University, and in English literature and the classics he was prodigiously well read.
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