SOURCE: "The Immortal Bard," in A Review of English Literature, Vol. IV, No. 1, January, 1963, pp. 21-24.

In the following review, Miller gives a brief account of Powys's life, and praises his Autobiography and A Glastonbury Romance.

My admiration, love and reverence for John Cowper Powys began when I was in my twenties and has continued ever since, which is to say for a period of almost fifty years. Some thirty years or more after I first heard him lecture I had the rare good fortune to visit him at his home in Corwen, Wales. I found the same wonderful being whom I had idolised in my youth, only he had grown younger, healthier, gayer. There he was, remote from the world, living on a pittance, writing faithfully each day as ever, and, though seemingly cut off from the world, in communication with an ungodly number of friends, compeers...