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Llewelyn Powys (13 August 1884 – 2 December 1939) was a British writer and younger brother of John Cowper Powys and T. F. Powys.

Life

Powys was born in Dorchester, the son of a Welsh clergyman, and was educated at Sherborne School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. While lecturing in the United States he contracted tuberculosis. After his return in 1909, he travelled again, living for a while in Switzerland. His time spent in Africa, farming with his brother William near Gilgil in British East Africa (now in Kenya) from 1914 to 1919, was to prove inspirational, as were many of his other life experiences. His other writings include a novel, Apples Be Ripe (1930), and a biography of Henry Hudson (1927). He was very friendly with Hamilton Rivers Pollock, Barrister, owner from 1928, of Urchfont manor. (See The Letters of Llewelyn Powys, by L Wilkinson, published 1943.) He died in 1941. The manor was bought by the Wiltshire County Council, in 1945. They made it into an adult college in 1947. (See Wiki. Urchfont Manor reference.)

Works

  • Confessions of Two Brothers (1916) with John Cowper Powys
  • Ebony and Ivory (1923) autobiography
  • Thirteen Worthies (1923) essays
  • Honey and Gall (1924) autobiography
  • Black Laughter (1925)
  • Cup-Bearers of Wine and Hellebore (1924)
  • Skin for Skin (1925) autobiography
  • The Verdict of Bridlegoose (1926)
  • Henry Hudson (1927)
  • Out of the Past (Grey Bow Press)
  • The Cradle of God (1929)
  • The Pathetic Fallacy (1930)
  • An Hour on Christianity (1930)
  • Apples Be Ripe (1930)
  • A Pagan's Pilgrimage (1931)
  • Impassioned Clay (1931)
  • The Life and Times of Anthony à Wood (1932)
  • Now That The Gods Are Dead (1932)
  • Glory of Life (1934)
  • Earth Memories (1935)
  • Damnable Opinions (1935)
  • Dorset Essays (1935)
  • The Twelve Months (1936)
  • Somerset Essays (1937)
  • Rats in the Sacristy (1937)
  • The Book of Days (1937)
  • Love and Death (1939)
  • A Baker's Dozen (1940)
  • Old English Yuletide (1940)
  • The Letters of Llewelen Powys (1943) edited by Louis Wilkinson
  • Swiss Essays (1947)
  • Advice to a Young Man (1949)
  • Llewelyn Powys: A Selection (1952) edited by Kenneth Hopkins

Further reading

  • Peter J. Foss (2007), A Bibliography of Llewelyn Powys

References

  • Richard Heron Ward (1936) The Powys Brothers
  • Malcolm Elwin (1946) The Life of Llewelyn Powys
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