John Cowper Powys wrote long, philosophical novels in which landscape, private obsession, sexuality and myth carry as much weight as conventional plot. Wolf Solent follows a history teacher who leaves London for Dorset and becomes entangled in local relationships, family secrets and his own elaborate inner life. A Glastonbury Romance expands to a large cast in Somerset, combining town politics and personal rivalries with the Grail legend and competing ideas about the spiritual meaning of Glastonbury. Weymouth Sands and Maiden Castle continue his intense engagement with the West Country. Powys's prose is digressive, sensual and demanding, moving freely between social comedy, nature writing and visionary speculation. His work fits modernist fiction, mystical novels and West Country literature; readers of Thomas Hardy, D. H. Lawrence and Mervyn Peake may find points of connection, though Powys is more expansive and eccentric than any of them. Read more Less
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