Unattributed quotations are from Weymouth Sands,  Rivers Press 1973, except for those in italics which are from In Defence of Sensuality,  Gollancz 1930 or from A Philosophy of Solitude,  Simon and Schuster 1933, and for one quotation from Thomas Hardy. The works of John Cowper Powys are © John Powys. The quotation from Thomas Hardy is © Macmillan London Ltd.