POWYS, John Cowper.
A Glastonbury Romance.
London, John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, [1933].
8vo, pp. [12], 1174, [2]; publishers blue cloth lettered in red; white glazed paper jacket; a very good copy in a somewhat worn jacket, spine chipped, a few short tears; bookplate of D.G. Bridson.
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A Glastonbury Romance.
First edition of Powys’s monumental sixth novel. Though we cannot trace a direct link between Powys and Bridson, Bridson certainly knew Powys’s friend James Hanley - they worked together for the BBC during the war. The centrality of the Grail legends to A Glastonbury Romance would have been of interest to Bridson, whose own radio drama King Arthur premiered in 1937. Powys’s main source was Jessie Weston’s Ritual and Romance, the same work that had influenced T. S. Eliot’s Waste Land; Bridson also owned a copy.
