Articles & Books about TFP - The Powys Society

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Theodore Powys - Articles and Books About
Note: Put into alphabetical order for ease of access. Ordered by name of magazine, if an
article, or by author if a book. Presently shelved immediately after Theodore books.
BOOKS AND ARTICLES ABOUT T.F. POWYS
Adelphi. 1954. ‘The Quiet Man of Dorset’ by Francis Powys.
“Assistant Librarian. January, 1961, vol 54, no 1. ‘The Powys Family: II. T.F.
Powys’ by T.D. Wilson
Author Unknown. 2 pp typed about T.F. Powys. Dated 1927, East Chaldon, Dorset.
Note: Possibly by Sylvia Townsend Warner.
Aylesford Review. Spring, 1963. Contains ‘T.F. Powys’ by John Cowper Powys
Note: This is filed under JCP - Contributions to periodicals.
Beachcroft, T.O., The Modest Art: A Survey of the Short Story in English, Oxford
University Press, 1968.
Bookman. January and February, 1933. Article on T.F.P. in two parts by Cecil G.
Hutchinson.
Borzoi, The. New York: A.A. Knopf, 1925. Contains David Garnett: ‘T.F. Powys’
Boulton. J.A. T.F. Powys: Experiment, Protestation and Achievement: Before Mr
Weston’s Good Wine, PH.D. THESIS, 1971.
Bridge, The. April, 1946. ‘In Two Worlds: The Novels of T.F. Powys’ by Peter
Ferriday.
Buning, Marius. T.F. Powys: A Modern Allegorist. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1986.
Inscribed: To Mr E.E. Bissell for support and kindness bestowed through the years.
Gratefully yours, Marius Buning.
Cavaliero, Glen. The Rural Tradition in the English Novel, 1900-1939. London:
Macmillan Press, 1977. Chapter on T.F. P and several other references to members
of the clan.
Note: Double-listed by Bissell. Only one copy. In Anthologies section.
Church Times: ‘T.F. Powy’s, by H Coombes, critical study of author.

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Coombes, Harry. T.F. Powys. London: Barrie & Rockcliffe, 1960. (3 copies)
Courier. August, 1947. ‘Man of Letters’ by Butterfield.
Note: This is one page with impressionistic drawing of T.F. with a background of
‘man of letters’ repeated.
Critic, The. Spring, 1947, vol 1, no 1 ‘The Path of T.F. Powys’ by R.C. Churchill.
Daily Telegraph. May 27, 1960. Review by Malcolm Elwin of Coombes’ book.
Delta. 1974, no 52. ‘The Market Bell and a note on T.F. Powys’ by J.A. Boulton.
Delta. October, 1959. ‘Reflections on T.F. Powys’ by W.I. Carr
Delta. February, 1961. A review of Coombes book on T.F. by Geoffrey Strickland
Dorset: The County Magazine. 20 July - 25 August, 1975. ‘Theodore, The Great
Neglected’ by Rosemary Manning.
Dorset Daily Echo. May 20, 1933. ‘A Great Living Writer of Dorset’, article on
T.F.P., no name.
Dorset Daily Echo. N.d. (October, 1935) ‘Leaves from an ‘Echo’ Man’s Notebook’
by ‘the Wanderer’: notes on T.F. including his award of a Civil List pension.
Dorset Evening Echo: August 6th 1975: ‘Conference and Exhibition Mark TF’s
Centenary, by The Wanderer
Dorset Evening Echo: August 18th 1975: ‘The Hermit Who Was Haunted by his
God’, Gilbert Grevett
Dorset Evening Echo: Sept. 1975: ‘T.F. The Most Dorset of the Powys Brothers’
Dutch Quarterly Review of Anglo-American Letters, Vol 10, 1980 No., 3, M.
Buning review of Michel Pouillard, T.F. Powys (1875-1953): La Solitude, le Doute,
L’Art (doctoral thesis, Grenoble, 1978) offprint.
Eagle, The. vol. XLV. No.204, 1929. ‘T.F. Powys: An Appreciation’ by W.C.H.
English Studies. 1944, vol 26. ‘T.F. Powys’ by A.G. van Kranendonk.
Note: This is a photocopy sent along with the Steinmann article by Marius Buning to
E.E. Bissell.
English Studies. 1960, 41. ‘Water and Animal Symbolism in T.F. Powys’ by Martin
Steinmann. (Photocopy as above).

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English Studies. 1969, vol 50. ‘Folly Down Revisited’ by Marius Buning.
Photocopy with letter to E.E. Bissell from Buning dated 1975.
Englische Studien. ‘’Die Geschwister Powys’ by Karl Arns. (Offprint). Also typed
article of above in English by Karl Arns.
Essays in Criticism. October, 1961, vol XI, No 4, pp 463- 466. Offprint of a review
of Coombes book, entitled ‘A Modern Allegorist’ by H.P. Collins.
Etudes Anglaises et Americaines. V, 1972. Contains ‘Le Villain dans les Romans de
T.F. Powys’ by M. Pouillard. (On relevant shelf)
Etudes Anglaises. Oct-Dec, 1969. Contains ‘T.F. Powys: Conférencier à Eastborne,
1902-03' by M. Pouillard. (On relevant shelf)
Etudes Anglaises. vol XXV, No 3 July/Sept 1972. Extrait: ‘Notes et Documents’
Deux Inédits de T.F. Powys’ by M. Pouillard.
Everybodys. Jan 2, 1954. ‘Hermit of the House in the Pasture’ by Francis Powys.
Exploring the Powys Connection: Photocopy of press cutting undated and
unattributed, on Powys connections in Norwich following Powys Society conference
in Norwich.
Frontiers of Fiction. London: K.A. Ward, Essex, 1970. ‘The Left Leg and the Right
Direction for T.F. Powys’ by R.C. Churchill. Copy no 34 of 150.
Goodyear, H.R.R. Typescript of an article ‘Theodore Francis Powys: The Paul
Bunyan of the Twentieth Century’.
Hunter, William. The Novels and Stories of T.F. Powys. Cambridge: Gordon Fraser
at St. John’s College, 1930.
Hunter, William. The Novels and Stories of T.F. Powys, The. Cambridge: The
Minority Press, 1930.
Inscribed: ‘To Gertrude M. Powys, Theodore Francis Powys “You are my Angel,
Tamar whispered - ”
Note: Exactly same book as above, different press.
Hunter, William. The Novels and Stories of T.F. Powys, The. Reprint of above by
Trigon Press, 1977.
King’s College, London, Review. January 13, 1954. ‘T.F. Powys. An Appreciation’
by J.C.L. Lewson.
Leavis, Q.D. Fiction and the Reading Public. Passing reference to T.F.P.

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Living Writers: Being Critical Studies Broadcast in the BBC Third Programme. Ed
by Gilbert Phelps. London: Sylvan Press, 1947. Louis Marlow on T.F.P.
Nonesuch, The. (The official organ of the Union of the University of Bristol)
Summer, 1934, No. 69. Contains an article on T.F.P. Signed by ‘Alceste’.
Notes and Queries, February 1972, contains J.A. Boulton. “The Moods of God: An
Early Version of Mr. Tasker’s Gods”, with additional offprint of pp.56-59.
Notes and Queries, Sept. 1972. Contains ‘Evening for T.F. Powys’ by J.A. Boulton
(2 copies)
Potocki, Count, of Montalk, Dog’s Eggs, A Study in Powysology, Part One, 1968,
Part Two, 1971.
Pouillard, Michel. T.F. Powys (1875-1953) La Solitude, Le Doute, L’Art, 1978 2
vol. PH.D. THESIS.
Review of English Literature. January, 1963. J.C.P. number. Contains ‘The Second
Brother’ a note on T.F. Powys by Kenneth Hopkins.
Note: This is filed under JCP - articles and books about. But a second copy has been
put in this section.
Review of English Literature, April 1967, contains A.P. Riley, “The Original Ending
of ‘Mr. Weston’s Good Wine’”
Theodore (Essays on T.F. Powys). Edited with a foreword by Father Brocard
Sewell. London: Saint Albert’s Press, 1964, copy no 164 of 450. Essays on T.F.P.
by Neville Braybrooke, Harry Coombes, Kenneth Hopkins, Elizabeth Muntz, Francis
Powys, Louis Wilkinson. Also contains a story by T.F. ‘The Useless Woman’.
Times Literary Supplement: June 20th 1975: Letter on forthcoming Powys Society
conference marking TFP’s centenary by Glen Cavaliero.
Tract. No 27. ‘T.F. Powys: A Reappraisal’ by R.B. Watson.
Warner, Sylvia Townsend. TYPESCRIPT for proposed book on Theodore Powys
(untitled) by Sylvia Townsend Warner (incomplete), 33 pages. Also explanation by
Bissell of what parts of it were used by various magazines. Photocopy of Powys
Review no 5 with editor’s explanation included with typescript.
Warner, Sylvia Townsend. TYPESCRIPT of ‘Theodore Powys’ (26 pp) published in
Powys Review 5, with editor’s explanation.
Revue de Paris. September, 1965. ‘Powys, l’homme tranquille du Dorset’ by
Raymond Las Vergnas.

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Welsh Review. Autumn, 1947. ‘The Art of Theodore Powys, Ironist’ by Frank
Kermode.
Zeitschrift fur franzosischen und englischen Unterricht, Berlin: Weidmannsche
Buchhandlung, 1927.