John Cowper Powys's Wolf Solent: Critical StudiesBelinda Humfrey Wolf Solent, first published in 1929. |
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Page 37
... face on the Waterloo steps ' he had seen on leaving London for Dorset . This ghastly and ravaged face is an incarnation — as Angus Wilson has pointed out , significantly urban - of the phrase ' to meet one's Waterloo ' . The face is ...
... face on the Waterloo steps ' he had seen on leaving London for Dorset . This ghastly and ravaged face is an incarnation — as Angus Wilson has pointed out , significantly urban - of the phrase ' to meet one's Waterloo ' . The face is ...
Page 131
... face ' and the materiality of Dorset - its apparitions , events and characters - will challenge him . Powys narrates this challenge through repetitions of the Look from the Waterloo face and from a wide array of Dorset faces and ...
... face ' and the materiality of Dorset - its apparitions , events and characters - will challenge him . Powys narrates this challenge through repetitions of the Look from the Waterloo face and from a wide array of Dorset faces and ...
Page 136
... face down on a sharp instrument , and is ' despoiled and disfigured for life ' . In the context of the drama of the Look , this accident is explained by Powys's attempt , in the logic of the narrative , to cope with the power of Gerda's ...
... face down on a sharp instrument , and is ' despoiled and disfigured for life ' . In the context of the drama of the Look , this accident is explained by Powys's attempt , in the logic of the narrative , to cope with the power of Gerda's ...
Contents
The Face on the Waterloo Steps | 37 |
Peter Easingwood | 55 |
Philosophy | 69 |
Copyright | |
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Aberystwyth allusions Angus Wilson Autobiography beauty becomes Belinda Humfrey Blacksod Bob Weevil Carfax character Christie's comic complete Complex Vision consciousness critic death Defence of Sensuality desire Dorset escape evil experience face father feels fiction Glastonbury Romance golden Hamlet Hardy homosexual human Ibid imagination J. C. Powys Jason John Cowper Powys Jude the Obscure King Lear landscape Lenty Pond Letters to Llewelyn letters to Phyllis life-illusion living London look Malakite Malakite's malice mental mind modern mother mysterious myth nature Olwen Patchin Place philosophy Phyllis Playter pigsty poem poetry Porius Powys Review Powys's psychic Ramsgard reader reading reality Redfern's grave romance scapegoat scene seems Selena Selena Gault sense sexual Slow-worm soul story struggle suggests symbolic T. F. Powys things thought tion Torp University Urquhart Village Press Waterloo steps Weevil Weymouth William James William Solent Wolf Solent Wolf's mythology women Wordsworth writing
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