a glastonbury romance造句

• "A Glastonbury Romance " has several climactic moments, before the major final one.
• Three years later, John Cowper Powys wrote of the caves in the novel " A Glastonbury Romance ".
• John Cowper Powys's novel " A Glastonbury Romance " is set in Glastonbury and is concerned with the Grail.
• In 1932, the novelist John Cowper Powys published " A Glastonbury Romance ", the second of his so-called Wessex novels.
• Aldous Huxley ( 1894 1963 ) published his famous dystopia " Brave New World " in 1932, the same year as John Cowper Powys's " A Glastonbury Romance ".
• One of Powys's most admired novels, " A Glastonbury Romance ", published in 1932, sold well, though he made little if any money from it because of a libel lawsuit.
• Aldous Huxley ( 1894 1963 ) published his famous dystopia " Brave New World " in 1932, the same year as John Cowper Powys's ( 1872 1963 ) " A Glastonbury Romance ".
• A central aspect of " A Glastonbury Romance " is the attempt by John Geard, ex-minister now the mayor of Glastonbury, to restore Glastonbury to its medieval glory as a place of religious pilgrimage.
• Not only is " A Glastonbury Romance " concerned with the legend that Joseph of Arimathea brought the Grail, a vessel containing the blood of Christ, to the town, but the further tradition that King Arthur was buried there.
• The first two chapters of " A Glastonbury Romance " takes place in Norfolk, where the late Canon William Crow's will is read, and the Crow family learn that his secretary-valet John Geard has inherited his wealth.
• These traits are found perhaps more strongly in " A Glastonbury Romance " than any of Powys'other novels, though his works were usually imbued with the author's own Celtic-based mystic beliefs described in detail in his personal letters and " Autobiography ".
• "A Glastonbury Romance " sold particularly well in its British edition, though this was of little avail as it was the subject of an expensive libel case brought by Gerard Hodgkinson, the owner of the Wookey Hole Caves, who felt himself identifiably and unfairly portrayed in the character of Philip Crow.
• While Welsh mythology was already important in " A Glastonbury Romance " and " Maiden Castle " it became even more important after he and Phyllis Playter moved to Corwen, Wales, in 1935, first in the minor novel " Morwyn or The Vengeance of God " ( 1937 ).
• The libel case had a direct effect on Powys's career and output : subsequent editions of " A Glastonbury Romance " carried disclaimers reinforcing its status as fiction, and Powys's next novel " Weymouth Sands " was revised and published under a different name in the UK to avoid a repetition of the lawsuit from citizens of Weymouth.
• In his review of the British first edition, in " The Spectator ", 10 August 1929, writer and critic V . S . Pritchett wrote : " Wolf Solent " is a stupendous and rather glorious book [ & ] The book is as beautiful and strange as an electric storm, and like the thunder on the Sinai, it is somewhat of a sermon . " More recently, also in " The Spectator ", A . N . Wilson wrote : " The Wessex novels of John Cowper Powys  " Wolf Solent " ( 1929 ), " A Glastonbury Romance " ( 1933 ), " Jobber Skald " ( also published as " Weymouth Sands ", 1935 ) and " Maiden Castle " ( 1937 )  must rank as four of the greatest ever to be written in our language ."