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Powys’s writing career did not end with the great achievement of Porius, but it is hard not to feel that with Porius his work had its culmination. Although Atlantis, 1954, replaced Porius as Powys’s favourite book, there seems to be an absence of tension, the presence perhaps even of self-indulgence in the novel. This relaxation is a common factor in his last works, of which Atlantis is certainly the best.
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John Cowper Powys, The Inmates (Village Press, London, 1974), p. vii.
John Cowper Powys, Atlantis (Macdonald, London, 1964), p. 183. Hereafter cited as At.
John Cowper Powys, The Brazen Head (Macdonald, London, 1969), p. 165.
John Cowper Powys, All or Nothing (Macdonald, London, 1960), p. 22.
John Cowper Powys, You and Me (Village Press, London, 1975), p. 3.
John Cowper Powys, Two and Two (Village Press, London, 1974), p. 40.
John Cowper Powys, Real Wraiths (Village Press, London, 1974), pp. 7–8. Hereafter cited as RW.
Philip O’Connor, Living in Croesor (Hutchinson, London, 1962).
John Cowper Powys, The Pleasures of Literature (Village Press, London, 1975), p. 132.
Jeremy Hooker, John Cowper Powys (University of Wales Press, Cardiff, 1973), p. 92.
Walter Pater, Marius the Epicurean (Dent, London, 1968), p. 32.
Walter Pater, ‘Denys l’Auxerrois’, Imaginary Portraits (Macmillan, London, 1925), p. 51.
Arthur Machen, The Hill of Dreams (Corgi, London, 1967), p. 31.
Angus Wilson, ‘John Cowper Powys as a Novelist’, Powys Review (Spring 1977), p. 14.
Humphry House, Coleridge (1953, Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1962), p.26.
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Coates, C.A. (1982). Summing up. In: John Cowper Powys in Search of a Landscape. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06215-7_9
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