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Powys, T. F.
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Powys, T. F. ( Theodore Francis Powys) (1875–1953), brother of John Cowper and Llewelyn
Powys. East Chaldon, Dorset, provided the background to most of his novels and stories. His works include
Soliloquies of a Hermit (1916), a series of meditations; a collection of three long stories,
The Left Leg (1923); and the novels
Black Bryony (1923),
Mark Only (1924), and
Mr Tasker's Gods (1925), pessimistic tales of village life.
Mockery Gap (1923) and
Innocent Birds (1926) develop his religious concerns and include elements of the fable and the supernatural. He is best remembered for his novel
Mr Weston's Good Wine (1927), a vivid allegory in which Mr Weston (or God) comes to the worldly village of Folly Down, selling from his old van his vintages of Love and Death.
Fables (1929) was followed by his most complex novel,
Unclay (1931), which interlocks the stories of several bizarre characters, innocent, evil, and mad, whose lives and loves are altered by Death's arrival.
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Narrative progression and receptivity: John Cowper Powys's A Glastonbury Romance.
Magazine article from: Narrative; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...10). Many authors whom John Cowper Powys particularly admired, such as James Joyce...to the influence of his contemporaries, Powys composed several digressive, improbable...at interpretation. The neglect shown to Powys's work by most scholars and teachers...
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Hot shopping tips for Powys shoppers.
M2 Presswire; 2/28/2005; 700+ words
; ...UK Government: Hot shopping tips for Powys shoppers(C)1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:28022005 Shoppers in Powys are being targeted by the OFT with hot...will be joined by representatives from Powys Trading Standards and Consumer Direct Wales...
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North Powys free of foot-and-mouth; OUTBREAK: South Wales Valleys, Monmouthshire and South Powys risk-status downgraded.(News)
Newspaper article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales); 10/23/2001; 666 words
; Byline: SHEILA COLEMAN NORTH Powys has emerged from the nightmare of foot...disease. From midnight last night North Powys, the worst hit area in Wales, became...foot-and-mouth free", with South Powys, Monmouthshire and the South Wales Valleys...
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Obituary: Ursula Powys-Lybbe
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 2/26/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...1947, the English photographer Ursula Powys-Lybbe set off for the Australian outback...but rugged ex-army Dodge command car, Powys-Lybbe enjoyed an idyll of freedom. With...when the portrait sessions were over, Powys-Lybbe made an Australian documentary...
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Powys cuts could herald job losses across Wales.(News)
Newspaper article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales); 3/9/2006; 700+ words
; ...and worried parents have been lobbying Powys councillors against cuts in the county...schools, children and young people in Powys. 'We have been told that the schools' delegated budget in Powys for 2006-2007 will be cut by 2.5...
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Powys tops the low-pay league.(News)
Newspaper article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales); 12/14/2004; 700+ words
; ...weekly earnings of full-time workers in Powys is the lowest region of all at pounds 369...led to low levels of pay in Wales. In Powys 20% of the population is employed in agriculture...fact that a huge number of people from Powys and Gwynedd are employed in tourism and...
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Letter: Powys back into the dark ages.(Letters)
Newspaper article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales); 10/1/2008; 566 words
; ...the switch-off of many street lights in Powys. The authority has most certainly put...an indictment indeed. I have lived in Powys (and previously in the Breconshire area...money and it does indeed look as though Powys County Council needs to do what it says...
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Powys patients' lottery.(News)
Newspaper article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales); 7/24/2003; 466 words
; PATIENTS in Powys are treated differently depending on which...inspectors found. The CHI report into Powys Local Health Boards will also today reveal...on equipment. The routine inspection in Powys was fast-tracked following concerns about...
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Powys County Council to implement Cybit Telematics and Fleet Tracking system for Winter Maintenance and Highways services To control servicing and actions required for up to 450 specialist vehicles;' Includes gully emptiers, gritters, refuse collection and street-light repair.
M2 Presswire; 10/16/2008; 700+ words
; ...M2 PRESSWIRE-16 October 2008-Cybit: Powys County Council to implement Cybit Telematics...M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:16102008 Powys Council has awarded Cybit, the UK's...to be signed. The agreement means that Powys County Council can now, for the first...
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Mystic sensations Chris Woodhead hopes this classic will win the quirky John Cowper Powys new fans
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 5/26/2002; ; 700+ words
; Maiden Castle by John Cowper Powys The Overlook Press, pounds 25, 484 pp...READERS NEW to the novels of John Cowper Powys should beware. The dust-jacket blurb...to dominate and control. The plot, for Powys, is relatively straightforward. The curiously...
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Powys
Book article from: A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology
Powys [L pagenses , (land of the) country...the territories of the ancient Carnovii, Powys reached its apogee during the reign of King...for the welcome it extended to minstrels, Powys was called the ‘Garden of Wales...
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Powys, kingdom of
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
Powys, kingdom of. A Welsh kingdom that survived...the Cornovii ; but the first reference to Powys dates from the 9th cent. Its kings claimed...overrun by Mercians from the mid-7th cent. Powys withstood encroachments from England and...
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John Cowper Powys
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
John Cowper Powys , 1872-1963, British author and lecturer...and A Glastonbury Romance (1932), Powys also wrote poetry and lectured on literature...Collins (1966) and G. Cavaliero (1973). Powys was one of an extraordinary family of writers...
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Powys, John Cowper
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Powys, John Cowper (1872–1963), brother of Llewelyn and Theodore Powys , was brought up in the Dorset–Somerset...young. Most of the later novels, written after Powys had settled in Wales, share an extravagance of...
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Powys, T. F.
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Powys, T. F. ( Theodore Francis Powys ) (1875–1953), brother of John Cowper and Llewelyn Powys . East Chaldon, Dorset, provided the background to most of his novels and stories. His works include Soliloquies of a Hermit (1916...
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