Contents

Editorial:
Raymond Garlick and John Cowper Powys
4


Raymond Garlick
Four Poems on John Cowper Powys:
Extract from Scene Seven of Blaenau
Observed (1956); 'Seeing', 'Death
of an Actor' and 'The Immortals'
(from Landscapes and Figures (1964))
7


Joe Boulter
John Cowper Powys's [De]construction
of Welsh Identity in Porius
9


Robin Wood
Queer Attacks and Fits: Epilepsy and
Ecstatic Experiences in the Novels of
J.C.Powys
21


Jacqueline Peltier
Powys--and the Pleasures of Proust?
30


Susan Rands
The Glastonbury Libel
43


Elmar Schenkel
From Powys to Pooh: Some Versions of Taoism in British and American Literature
53


John Cowper Powys
Poem: 'The Occult Madonna' (1906)
63


Joseph Resnick
Remembering John Cowper Powys
64


Reviews
66


Notes on Contributors
73
Reviews


Gloria G. Fromm, ed.
Windows on Modernism:
Selected Letters of Dorothy Richardson
ROBIN WOOD
66


Anthony Head, ed.
Powys to Sea Eagle: The Letters
of John Cowper Powys to
Philippa Powys
J. S. RODMAN
67


Oliver and Christopher Wilkinson, eds.
Jack and Frances: The Love Letters
of John Cowper Powys and
Frances Gregg, 2 vols
PETER EASINGWOOD
68


Frances Gregg
The Mystic Leeway
ed. Ben Jones
BELINDA HUMFREY
69


Morine Krissdottir, ed.
Petrushka and the Dancer,
The Diaries of John Cowper Powys,
1929-1939
RODNEY AITCHTEY
70


Glen Cavaliero
A Steeple on a Hill
K. E. SMITH
71

Cover photograph: John Cowper Powys in the doorway of 1 Waterloo, Blaenau Ffestiniog
(Photograph: Raymond Garlick)


The Powys Review Numbers 31 and 32 Volume VIII, iii & iv