John Cowper Powys's Wolf Solent: Critical StudiesBelinda Humfrey Wolf Solent, first published in 1929. |
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Page 49
... tion and independence ' recalling Wordsworth's leech - gatherer . Wolf calls his new life , begun in the field of buttercups behind the pigsty , an ' adjustment ' . And in some ways , it is little more than that , rejecting as it does ...
... tion and independence ' recalling Wordsworth's leech - gatherer . Wolf calls his new life , begun in the field of buttercups behind the pigsty , an ' adjustment ' . And in some ways , it is little more than that , rejecting as it does ...
Page 100
... tion in organic life . Powys's metaphoric uses of flowers are as diverse as the varieties of botanical life to which he refers through- out the novel . Powys's flowery rhetoric adorns and protects ' the rich fleece ' . Bluebells ...
... tion in organic life . Powys's metaphoric uses of flowers are as diverse as the varieties of botanical life to which he refers through- out the novel . Powys's flowery rhetoric adorns and protects ' the rich fleece ' . Bluebells ...
Page 177
... tion that comes to Wolf in his reconciliation of them . Wolf does not possess the blithe skill of the ideal Powys - hero such as Porius whose nature is strong enough to resist the loss of self - enclosure involved in sex relationships ...
... tion that comes to Wolf in his reconciliation of them . Wolf does not possess the blithe skill of the ideal Powys - hero such as Porius whose nature is strong enough to resist the loss of self - enclosure involved in sex relationships ...
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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