Welsh Ambassadors: Powys Lives and Letters - Tapa dura

Welsh Ambassadors: Powys lives and letters. With an introduction by Kenneth Hopkins

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. Nice copy in a dustwrapper that is slightly faded at spine. Second edition (first edition published by Chapman & Hall, 1936), with a new introduction, this copy with the (Will Carter, rust) book-label of the bookseller and Powys specialist George Sims; loosely inserted Count Potocki of Montalk's eight-page prospectus A New Dorset Worthy (Plush: Mélissa Press, [1964]; slightly spotted and creased, with the author's autograph note, "The new book, The Whirling River, is the best produced of all my books, so far. Bound in very pale green cloth. How many can I sell you?"). Potocki makes his claim as "a new Dorset worthy": "If it should be alleged strange for a Pole to be a Dorset worthy, I should just like to know why a Welshman can be one and not a Pole. A Welshman is every bit as foreign as a Pole, more so if anything. I am alluding to John Cowper Powys, who went up to Blaenauffestiniog and set himself up as a Welshman and a Welsh prophet (descended from Glendower). That he was not a Welshman at all nor a prophet and was not descended from Glendower does not affect my case, for he did not write nor publish a line in Dorset, never resided in Dorset nor owned so much as a Dorset Horn. On top of that he is a pretentious, windy writer who is a disgrace to literature.". Nº de ref. del artículo: 32M100359

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