"Leisurely, copious, humorous."
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Conrad Aiken, review of Wolf Solent in The New York Post, quoted in H. P. Collins, John Cowper Powys: Old Earth-Man (1966), p. 77
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John Cowper Powys
1872 β 1963
walisischer Dichter und Schriftsteller
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