Not for Mr Poop

From: The Spectator | Date: October 4, 1997| Author: | Copyright information

JOHN COWPER POWYS by Herbert Williams Seren, 14.95, pp. 172

This old man is sly and wise, He knows the truth, he tells no lies . . . Stevie Smith's `Homage to John Cowper Powys' (with drawing of a harper) is addressed to the aged magician of Corwen and Blaenau Ffestiniog: self-elected Welshman for the last third of his 90 years, creator of the long river-like romances, half-ancient, halfmodern, and the essays with their sudden clarifying perceptions; he of the voice unlike anyone else's, defier of fashion, the white elephant of literary classifiers. (He is as deep as a British pool And ...

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