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Powys and Emma Goldman: The Letters of John Cowper Powys and Emma Goldman

The strange experience of England

edited by David Goodway
Cecil Woolf, 188pp, £30,

A. N. Wilson

Wednesday, 13th February 2008

A. N. Wilson on the life and letter of John Cowper Powys

The Wessex novels of John Cowper Powys — Wolf Solent (1929), A Glastonbury Romance (1933), Jobber Skald (also published as Weymouth Sands, 1935) and Maiden Castle (1937) — must rank as four of the greatest ever to be written in our language. Even those who do not feel ready for the 1,000-page novel based on Arthurian Britain, Porius (1951) which some consider to be the master work, it should be clear that here we have a truly major figure.

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