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Wolf Solent
by John Cowper Powys
I bought one of this author’s novels - Weymouth Sands - from a secondhand bookshop in Sedburgh a few years ago and have not yet got round to reading it. Then I saw an article in the Telegraph (it’s ok fellow lefties, someone gave it to me!) about Wolf Solent and this spurred me into action.
This seems to be one of the few books by this author you can buy new. I’ve since found a battered paperback of A Glastonbury Romance on Amazon.
He appears to be an author out of fashion. While I can understand in a way - his style is highly descriptive and sometimes elusive - I think I’ve been missing out and can’t wait to read that battered copy!
I can’t be doing with book reviews which tell you exactly what happens in the book so I’ll just try and sum up some features of the book.
Newspaper articles seem to describe him as a mixture of Hardy, Lawrence and Blake. Landscape and nature is described in detail, as it would appear that the characters’ fates are bound to where they live. Sex is talked about frankly, without there being any detail about sexual encounters. It seems that such frankness is because it arises directly from nature. Much more than this is the idea (and this is where the author seems so original) that our minds are so affected by natural surroundings as to be almost an aspect of it - everything is matter.
This seems to be one of the few books by this author you can buy new. I’ve since found a battered paperback of A Glastonbury Romance on Amazon.
He appears to be an author out of fashion. While I can understand in a way - his style is highly descriptive and sometimes elusive - I think I’ve been missing out and can’t wait to read that battered copy!
I can’t be doing with book reviews which tell you exactly what happens in the book so I’ll just try and sum up some features of the book.
Newspaper articles seem to describe him as a mixture of Hardy, Lawrence and Blake. Landscape and nature is described in detail, as it would appear that the characters’ fates are bound to where they live. Sex is talked about frankly, without there being any detail about sexual encounters. It seems that such frankness is because it arises directly from nature. Much more than this is the idea (and this is where the author seems so original) that our minds are so affected by natural surroundings as to be almost an aspect of it - everything is matter.