Porius

Author

John Cowper Powys

First published in 1932, here is John Cowper Powys's masterwork, an epic novel of terrific cumulative force and lyrical intensity. In it he interweaves the ancient with the modern as he probes the mystical and spiritual ethos of the small English village of Glastonbury and the effect upon its inhabitants...

Author	John Cowper Powys
ISBN	0375703071

When it was first published in 1929, John Cowper Powys's rapturous novel of eros and ideas was compared with works by Shakespeare, Thomas Hardy, and D.H. Lawrence. Since then it has won the admiration of writers from Henry Miller to Iris Murdoch. Wolf Solent remains wholly unrivaled in its deft and risky...

Author	John Cowper Powys
ISBN	0879517174

Some rather rambling thoughts...

Here are the first couple of paragraphs which, more than anything I could say here, set out both the strengths and the problems with JCP's style. In particular, at least for me, the first sentence is a wonderfully complex and concise observation of nature,...

Author	John Cowper Powys
ISBN	1585671150

The novels of John Cowper Powys are like none other, containing the romantic extravagance and comic exuberance of the great nineteenth-century novels with the self-conscious depth and introspection of the great Modernists. Maiden Castle portrays in pointillist detail the complexities of sexual...

Author	John Cowper Powys
ISBN	1585673145

Owen Glendower is John Cowper Powys' brilliant re-imagining of the life and exploits of Wales's national hero.
It is the year 1400, and Wales is on the brink of a bloody revolt. At a market fair on the banks of the River Dee a mad rebel priest and his beautiful companion are condemned to be burned at the...