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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.
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Life [link]
Powys was born in Dorchester, the son of a 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.
Works [link]
- 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 (?)
- 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 [link]
- Peter J. Foss (2007), A Bibliography of Llewelyn Powys
References [link]
- Richard Heron Ward (1936) The Powys Brothers
- Malcolm Elwin (1946) The Life of Llewelyn Powys
- L Wilkinson (1943) The Letters of Llewelyn Powys
External links [link]
https://wn.com/Llewelyn_Powys
Powys
Powys (/ˈpoʊ.ɪs/ or /ˈpaʊ.ɪs/;Welsh: [ˈpowɪs]) is a principal area, local-government county and preserved county in Mid Wales. It is named after the successor Kingdom of Powys, which formed after the Romans withdrew from Britain.
Geography
Powys covers the historic counties of Montgomeryshire and Radnorshire, most of Brecknockshire (Breconshire), and a small part of Denbighshire — an area of 5,179 km² (2,000 sq miles), making it the largest county in Wales by land area.
It is bounded to the north by Gwynedd, Denbighshire and Wrexham; to the west by Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire; to the east by Shropshire and Herefordshire; and to the south by Rhondda Cynon Taf, Merthyr Tydfil, Caerphilly, Blaenau Gwent, Monmouthshire and Neath Port Talbot.
Most of Powys is mountainous, with north-south transport being difficult.
The majority of the Powys population lives in villages and small towns. The largest towns are Newtown, Ystradgynlais, Brecon, and Welshpool with populations of 12,783, 9,004, 7,901 and 6,269 respectively (2001). Powys has the lowest population density of all the principal areas of Wales.
Powys (surname)
Powys is a Welsh surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Of the five people above, the first four are descended from the same family that was clearly found in Ludlow, Shropshire in the sixteenth century. There is evidence, but not strong, from the seventeenth century that the Ludlow Powyses came from Cockshot, also in Shropshire, see the unpublished 1662/3 Visitation of Shropshire in the College of Arms. The Cockshot Powyses (and Powis and Powes, etc.) are to be found in public records from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, see charters in Shropshire Record Office. There are other families of Powis who also are probably descended from this Cockshot outpost. While it is attractive to see all these Powys/Powis/Powes as descended from Wales, there is as yet no clear evidence to support this.
