Friday, November 02, 2007

More Praise for John Cowper Powys

Overlook's new edition of Porius is reviewed in this week's New Yorker: "The line between reality and reverie is not always clearly demarcated, and the epic number of characters is often bewildering, but the astutely envisaged world and the operatic romantic couplings quickly draw in the reader."

And the brilliant new biography of Powys, Descents of Memory, by Dr. Morine Krissdottir is the subject of a lengthy review ("The Dorset Proust") in The Literary Review: "An inspired study of the tangled and precarious life an absurdly neglected writer."

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