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A Glastonbury Romance
In it he probes the mystical and spiritual ethos of the small English village of Glastonbury, and the effect upon its inhabitants of a mythical tradition from the remotest past of human history - the legend of the Grail. Powys's rich iconography interweav
Book Details
- Publisher: Overlook Press
- Publish Date: Nov 1st, 1996
- Pages: 1120
- Language: English
- Edition: Revised - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.48in - 5.34in - 1.91in - 1.81lb
- EAN: 9780879516819
- Recommended age: 18-UP
- Categories: • Literary
About the Author
Powys, John Cowper: - John Cowper Powys (1872-1963) lived in the United States as well as his native England. The author of ten novels, including A Glastonbury Romance, Weymouth Sands, and Maiden Castle, as well as many works of criticism and philosophy, he was the son of a vicar and a descendant of the poets Donne and Cowper.
Praise for this book
The first modern paperback edition of "the only novel produced by an English writer that can fairly be compared with the fictions of Tolstoy and Dostoyevski." -George Steiner, "The New Yorker"
"To encounter [Powys] ... is to arrive at the very fount of creation. He makes us witness the consuming fire which rages throughout the universe entire and which gives not warmth nor enlightenment, but enduring vision, enduring strength, and enduring courage." --Henry Miller
"This is a ... great novel. It stands as a gigantic rebuke to a time of minimum-risk writers and readers, and I hope that many among them will be encouraged to attempt it." --"The Chicago Tribune"
?I am working my way slowly through [Powy?s] works of which "A Glastonbury Romance" is the mightiest. Epic in length, this has an important contemporary resonance as all the makings of the modern Glastonbury legends, mirrored and enacted anew at the 1971 Glastonbury Fayre, are prefigured in this remarkable e
"To encounter [Powys] ... is to arrive at the very fount of creation. He makes us witness the consuming fire which rages throughout the universe entire and which gives not warmth nor enlightenment, but enduring vision, enduring strength, and enduring courage." --Henry Miller
"This is a ... great novel. It stands as a gigantic rebuke to a time of minimum-risk writers and readers, and I hope that many among them will be encouraged to attempt it." --"The Chicago Tribune"
?I am working my way slowly through [Powy?s] works of which "A Glastonbury Romance" is the mightiest. Epic in length, this has an important contemporary resonance as all the makings of the modern Glastonbury legends, mirrored and enacted anew at the 1971 Glastonbury Fayre, are prefigured in this remarkable e