SOURCE: "Mr. Powys Writes of Ancient Wales," in New York Times Book Review, January 26, 1941, p. 7.

In the following review, Southron commends Owen Glendower for its faithfulness to early Welsh tradition.

Any one not Welsh who, like this reviewer, has lived in Wales and so become more than casually acquainted with the Welsh people of both north and south knows that the outstanding characteristics of the race are an inherent poetical quality, an ineradicable mysticism, an innate aristocracy of soul and a hard, stiffening core of realistic perception. No one alive today could be more fitted and qualified to interpret his people and country to the modern world than John Cowper Powys, himself descended, on his father's side, from ancient princes of mid-Wales and with William Cowper and John Donne in his mother's family tree. Mr. Powys's own distinctive contribution to modern literature elsewhere and in these volumes is...