Biography EssayAlthough Anthony Powell produced five charming, self-contained, intermittently profound novels before World War II and has published two plays, his place as a major writer of fiction re...
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The English novelist Anthony Dymoke Powell (1905-2000), a distinguished writer of social comedy, is best known for his duodecalogy called A Dance to the Music of Time.Anthony Dymoke Powell was born in...
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Although Anthony Powell produced five charming, self-contained, intermittently profound novels before World War II and has published two plays, his place as a major writer of fiction rests upon A Dan...
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Critical Essay by Arthur Mizener
Despite Powell's inexhaustible interest in the highly competitive literary and artistic life of London, he has never shown the slightest desire to gain power f...
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Critical Essay by John Bayley
It is one of Anthony Powell's most disarming characteristics that his anecdotes exist for themselves, at most illustrating some nuance in the custom and fashion o...
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Critical Essay by Hilary Spurling
'Reading novels needs almost as much talent as writing them' is a favourite saying of X. Trapnel's, and one perhaps specially appropriate to the...
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Critical Essay by Simon Raven
Anthony Powell was born on 21 December, 1905, with a silver-plated spoon in his mouth, his father being a regular officer in a dim regiment of the line and his mother a ...
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Critical Essay by Stephen Brook
The Strangers All Are Gone displays the same desultory qualities as the preceding three volumes [of Powell's memoirs]: reticence, arbitrariness, sketchiness. No...
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Critical Essay by Martin Green
My old teacher, F. R. Leavis, would spend critical time only on novelists who reach the level of "significant fiction"; and the "insignificant�...
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Critical Essay by The Virginia Quarterly Review
Most that is memorable [in Infants of the Spring] is derived: other men's witticisms, other men's adventures, the force of other men�...
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Critical Essay by Philip Terzian
It is astonishing how an epoch can grow cold. All it takes, or so it would seem, is a sufficient number of memoirs mixed with the requisite stories and nicknames, all...
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Critical Essay by Robert Murray Davis
It is difficult to determine whether Anthony Powell's stance as a completely unremarkable man is the result of art or nature. Occasional passages [in Infa...
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Critical Essay by Simon Blow
At the close of the second volume of Anthony Powell's memoirs, To Keep the Ball Rolling, Powell had published his first three novels; at the opening of this new vo...
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Critical Essay by Harold Acton
Readers of [Powell's] autobiographical series will be able to trace the origins of some of his characters, a veritable goldmine for future thesis-writers. In his...
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Anthony Powell
Anthony (Dymoke) Powell
Critical Essay by Arthur Mizener
