Evening star., 1941-02-02
Power of Imagination Is
Demonstrated by Powys
In Story of Glendower
Faults of Expression Seen
In Impressive Record of
Historic Welsh Rebellion
Owen GIendower
By Mmy-Carter Roberts.

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fcOnal entertainment But the present work though certainly
described % ITS o S ao @ a tan m Doa Dd Of fUye Neb oG & m @ nse % 0a
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would DE a which the author
felicity period has dreamed story
his desng into that periods setting sug potn th peoo
ronc alterations to bring them into fit go conjunction
in this familiar qualities; will any one
century which lies more in Powysian mentality
taking records OF the mere % hoem % inns rs % d St @ T What
he seems thoroughly in 18th century lore
back into the earlier time plot other
as they
the revolt of the Welsh people @ which
ndowe the Eepued Welsh @ gan ] d ga % hook % begins with vi 6e
Welsh standard by tindower IN l4oo ana enas WIN ms
Of 6 h S aeS sfi o to i4O5 It only
which Jumps the years final the fates
Of the surviving characters
Day Day Realities
The great characteristic literary personality as it were
in which conveys to the reader sense 6i n4s &
OF the imagination and by the light
the of attain the reviewer acknoH
@ e6 % dd that the achievement derives entirely the
authors imaginative power and not from @ his Sk SKI & Gf % G
in the book indeed which m read & as
Dre John Cowper paradoc ability to write great
paed pfh qi han this one But
triumphs over the most faults of expression
SIMPLY R the S eoo xs of osnGo%s ss 1slaGP
% e EMOTIONS it happens will ufhcnt
OF Of MI M pOe @ % S be he has been made
sser an Wo RS sont she and Rook Aho
to saythe of the most excessive @ @
the most profound detachment the of the present story m
has M Pssn % given Sood accounts @ ea o his and
to on the rebels in patriotism which approaches religious
eGSaS MIS- & e and chances kepticm
plan ne he 1e1o oeeT o another tGt Win
taking ood yH snanf 4 ysa Rh R
That is the technical which the made to go
e1ves no true notion at all breadth and temper
Ss'i.ss Ss n.ss:r T,Ssrgsss FIsts ssewn
For the work is veabe of lesser plots made to % take
place & the pohs o lords prophets poets
dsen lights of love d IN mo reeon @ and each possessed
of vivid personality tang OF personal concerns m H., n
e Giendov moves another and in each
p medieval establishment hong of characters with
tbr @ pob advanced combined tensions on
+ dominates the whole he is and the vic
hmseif him S1 MS '0"0"s'S ""' ''' '' N7
him a may be S Ske iCr m more 5ns sPGneO 3han
sis the s Of @ W RsOR H racial son the soul
people the @ race ETe aGeere m secret % of Withdrawn from the
ahd %n d f it's G enemies and cultivated
6n BY D H hs ca he esPs Ancestral sRs Sos
he finally leaves world sprbt to return again ms az aS
.ss 1 d 599 an h % Of @ RRa ST M 1ho 5s10 both
Sense Of Rae Racial aId1 Fate
sense of destiny of people is made to
brood over the of enang Glendower e
aies of the Wvdness AS sort of ronc sub
tween the GOTH We have Rhsart Tor example de-
3 the 3 @ mo h the out @ Ta Hf Re
knigh of
of
newanged ladies the interest themselves in
substituting I'm
odfaShoned simplicity OF the h cen
tuy credit that he these
said triumph imaginative writing The reviewer
where thrust of the
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