A Glastonbury Romance - Softcover

Powys, John Cowper

Softcover

ISBN 10: 087951681X ISBN 13: 9780879516819

Publisher: Overlook Press, 1996

Synopsis

First published in 1932, this is an epic novel of terrific force and lyrical intensity interweaving the ancient with the modern as it probes the mystical and spiritual ethos of Glastonbury and its association with the legend of the Grail. ... the only novel produced by an English writer that can fairly be compared with the fiction of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky...with an immensity to which only Blake could provide any parallel. Go out and acquire it. Almost everything else on your shelf will start looking thin.' - George Steiner'

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Review:

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

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Overlook Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 087951681X
• ISBN 13: 9780879516819
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 1120