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	Anthony Powell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Anthony Dymoke Powell (December 21, 1905 - March 28, 2000) was a writer best known for his A Dance to the Music of Time duodecalogy published between 1951 and 1975.
		In 1926, Powell took a job at the well-known London publishers Duckworth and Co, eventually rising to be an editor.
		During the war, Powell first served with the 1/5 Welch, a Territorial battalion, and then later in the Military Intelligence Corps as a Liaison Officer with the Allied Forces, in particular Belgium and Czechoslovakia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anthony_Powell (633 words)

	British Novelist Anthony Powell Dies at 94
		Anthony Powell was born in Westminster, London, the only child of an Army officer, P.L.W. Powell, and the former Maude Welss-Dymoke.
		Powell deftly satirized the social milieu he knew best -- the minor aristocrats, members of the polite professions and their artistic hangers-on, whose lives were defined by parties, outings and the ever-present specter of boredom.
		Powell made use of clipped, often inane dialogue to create a distinctive brand of comedy that relied, as he later put it, on "purposeless exchanges that are their own purpose," made meaningful by "an undercurrent of innuendo and irony."
	partners.nytimes.com /library/books/033000obit-powell.html (1106 words)

	Powell, Anthony Dymoke - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Powell, Anthony Dymoke
		It is written in an elegant style which sets off the blend of the comic, the melancholic, and the tragic in the situations he describes.
		Powell was born in London and educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford.
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Powell,+Anthony+Dymoke (196 words)

	Powell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Powell is the name of several places in the United States of America:
		Powell is a traditional Welsh surname said to mean "Son of the Servant of St. Paul," and often indicates descent from King Hywel the Good.
		The Welsh term "ap" means "son of", hence Ap Hywel was eventually spelled as Powell.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Powell (182 words)

	Salon Obituary \| Author Anthony Powell dead at 94
		Anthony Powell, whose 12-volume "A Dance to the Music of Time" secured his place among the great figures of 20th-century English literature, has died.
		Powell created a series of vivid, acutely perceived and often humorous characters whose stories are interwoven through half a century.
		Powell's gossipy and often caustic diaries -- begun in the 1980s and published in 1995 -- are filled with anecdotes and remembrances of famous characters, including the literary Longford family to whom he was related through his marriage in 1934 to Lady Violet Pakenham, daughter of the Earl of Longford.
	archive.salon.com /people/obit/2000/03/31/powell/print.html (473 words)

	Arts Unlimited \| Arts features \| Terrific snob
		Anthony Powell's detractors are a passionate lot, but they tend to make the same two or three objections to his work.
		Referring to Anthony Blunt's "magnum opus" on Poussin, Mount says "the clumsy maidens dancing their measure are not the four seasons at all but rather the figures of Poverty, Industry, Richness and Luxury through which man passes in an eternal series of revolutions".
		Although Powell has reservations about some of the great modernists, it turns out that his objections have less to do with formal innovations as such than with the fact they can trap their authors in too narrowly subjective a narrative structure.
	arts.guardian.co.uk /features/story/0,11710,1634741,00.html?gusrc=rss (1360 words)

	BBC News \| ENTERTAINMENT \| Novelist Anthony Powell dies
		Anthony Dymoke Powell was born in 1905 into an impeccably establishment family and it was the social mores of the upper-middle class which were reflected in his books.
		Anthony Powell also found time to be a prolific literary critic and book reviewer for, among others, the Daily Telegraph, the Times Literary Supplement, Punch and the Spectator.
		Although he refused a knighthood, Anthony Powell's contribution to English literature was formally recognised in 1988 when he joined an exclusive group of living writers to be made a Companion of Honour.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/694256.stm (501 words)

	Anthony Powell: a life - Reviews - www.theage.com.au
		Anthony Powell's great 12-volume novel, A Dance to the Music of Time, is so life-like and so deeply involving that it's inclined to draw some readers, as Powell's great model Proust does, into imagining that they can set up residence in his many-mansioned house of fiction.
		Anthony Powell: A Life is a bit like a biographical essay of five or 10,000 words that has somehow been fluffed out to book length the way a pasta sauce can be expanded with random additives.
		The trouble with Michael Barber's life of Anthony Powell is that he tries to treat Powell as a character whereas the whole logic of Powell's mature fiction is to present the self as a walking mirror, admitting no reflection.
	www.theage.com.au /news/Reviews/Anthony-Powell-a-life/2005/04/29/1114635699758.html?from=moreStories (863 words)

	Books \| Anthony Powell
		Anthony Powell, who has died aged 94, is inevitably regarded as the English Proust, on the strength of the massive novel sequence A Dance to the Music of Time - 12 volumes and a million words - that became his central life's work.
		Powell was of the opinion that most important writers, unlike most critics, have been well equipped with resources of humour; he even seems to have regarded it as a touchstone in evaluating them.
		Powell's world is well supplied with pubs without being beery, and there are times when the streets are thronged with well-born paupers conscientiously dodging their creditors.
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,3980064-99819,00.html (2152 words)

	Anthony Powell
		Powell's cloth-bound volumes of Burke's are still in place on one side of the fire place, and his novels are lined up on the other.
		Anthony, who as a young man felt socially excluded from the smartest circles, has benefited from Lady Violet's authomatic entrée; she seems to delight in sharing, but not often expressing, his forthright views.
		Anthony, for his part, has never said a disprespectful word about her in public, and the final sentence of his last Journal is a realisation of his dependence on her.
	www.sndc.demon.co.uk /apdt2.htm (1818 words)

	PREVIEW: Anthony Powell's Century (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Powell did not write this way because he was an old incorrigible--although, certainly, one feels a pleasant giddiness to read someone who died five years ago describing, first-hand, people born when Palmerston was prime minister.
		Powell's tastes in literature were decidedly modernist when he and the century were in their twenties.
		Powell's book spans the socioeconomic ladder of midcentury Britain from its 99th percentile to its 98th, and much of his humor is of the kind that blossoms in the mulch of class loathing.
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	Anthony Powell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Anthony Dymoke Powell (December 21, 1905 - March 28, 2000) is a writer most remembered for his A Dance to the Music of Time duodecalogy published between 1951 and 1975.
		Born in Westminster, England, he moved to Hollywood, California in 1936, a few years after publishing his first novel, to join Warner Brothers motion-picture studios on a six month contract as scriptwriter.
		Anthony Powell died at his home near Frome, Somerset.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Anthony_Powell (260 words)

	Author offers intelligent study of 'English Proust' - PittsburghLIVE.com
		It is an irony worthy of Anthony Powell himself that, in an age of biographical bloat that produces distended tomes on the most marginal of figures, we have this moderate-length biography of a man who lived so long and wrote so much that remains so well worth reading.
		Powell, in the estimation of many academics and critics as well as general readers, wrote the finest British novel of the postwar period.
		Powell, who died at age 94 in 2000, published, in addition to "Dance," seven other novels, plays, a biography, four volumes of memoirs, three volumes of diaries, criticism, other nonfiction, and poetry.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/entertainment/books/s_244232.html (714 words)

	The Innocence Project: Anthony Powell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In March 2004, Anthony Powell's kidnaping and rape convictions were vacated after DNA testing proved that he was not responsible for the 1992 rape of a teenage girl.
		The next night, Powell found himself in the wrong place at the wrong time - he was picked up from the skating rink, positively identified by the young woman, and charged with the crime.
		Powell maintained his innocence throughout his incarceration, but it was not until the Committee for Public Counsel Services appointed attorney Julie Boyden that Powell was able to obtain DNA testing of semen found in the rape victim.
	www.innocenceproject.org /case/display_profile.php?id=143 (201 words)

	Venusberg Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Anthony Powell is a British writer, born 1905 to a very upper middle-class, or somewhat lower upper-class, family (the nuances of British class divisions are sometimes a little hard to decipher for me).
		I suppose as Powell`s wife is the daughter of an Earl, and Powell himself attended Eton and Oxford, his background is more upper-class than not, a milieu certainly reflected in his novels.
		Powell is notorious for the economical but striking descriptions of his characters, and this talent of his is evident even in this early novel, though it is much developed in Dance.
	www.sff.net /people/richard.horton/venusb.htm (519 words)

	GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY - JOHN MONAGAN-ANTHONY POWELL COLLECTION: COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
		Anthony Dymoke Powell was born on December 21, 1905, in London, England.
		Powell's career as a writer was launched in 1931 with the publication of his first novel, "Afternoon Men." His publisher was Duckworth & Co. Ltd., with whom he was affiliated from 1926 to 1935.
		Anthony Powell and Lady Violet Pakenham were married on December 1, 1934.
	gulib.lausun.georgetown.edu /dept/speccoll/cl165.htm (680 words)

	Salon.com People \| Anthony Powell
		Powell was the last surviving member of that prolific, gifted generation of English writers who came out of Oxford in the mid-1920s.
		Given that Powell's life is so entwined with that of the "Dance's" narrator, Nick Jenkins, and his view that fiction evokes a higher truth than biography, the truest picture can be drawn by selecting a few favorite episodes from the work and allowing them to speak.
		Powell's material is so well organized that the 6-year-old "monster" bridesmaid who disrupts a wedding reappears volumes later as the wartime femme fatale.
	archive.salon.com /people/obit/2000/04/15/powell/print.html (2741 words)

	The unauthorized Anthony Powell by Brooke Allen
		Powell could have a tendency to seem stuffy; Barber’s breeziness undercuts this slight pomposity without ever tainting his sympathy for the man and his work.
		Like Waugh, Powell was a political conservative in a generation that favored the Left, but there is no need to be a Tory in order to enjoy their work: I myself am proof of that.
		Generally speaking, Powell’s pattern is successful insofar as it imitates the repetitions and sometimes inspired coincidences of life itself: Nietzsche’s “eternal recurrences,” with which he was fascinated.
	www.newcriterion.com /archive/23/sept04/powell.htm (4234 words)

	Boston.com / A&E / Books / The observer
		Powell's own countrymen mangled his name at his funeral, and the US ambassador to London, Raymond Seitz, botched it during a 1984 American Embassy ceremony honoring Powell.
		The great paradox apparent to Powell and to his contemporaries was that England was simultaneously very great as a world cultural power, and very small geopolitically.
		Powell, like Connolly and George Orwell, attended Eton, the school that has groomed the United Kingdom's elite since its founding by Henry VI, in 1440.
	www.boston.com /ae/books/articles/2004/10/17/the_observer (494 words)

	Salon.com People \| Anthony Powell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, Henry Green, John Betjeman, Cyril Connolly, Howard Acton, George Orwell and Powell himself were all born between 1903 and 1906, and all attended the university, with the exception of Orwell, who was a schoolboy at Eton with Powell, Acton and Connolly.
		Powell's art lies in the deftness with which he turns raw experience into fiction, a process elucidated in the final volume by his character X. Trapnel, a down-at-heel novelist (based on the underrated, underread, amphetamine-gobbling late 1940s Fitzrovian, Julian Maclaren-Ross).
		Powell deplored the habit (popular among British and American readers) of identifying "real-life" models for his characters, regarding it as a gross simplification of the novelist's art.
	www.salon.com /people/obit/2000/04/15/powell (980 words)

	Spectator, The: Tony at the Travellers: Anthony Powell as clubman
		Tony Powell himself tended to be annoyed by such bald assertions as to the origins of his fictional characters, but I remember him cryptically conceding that Seward was 'a clever fellow and might be on to something'.
		Anthony Powell himself was elected to the Travellers as early as 1930 - a year before he published his first novel of bohemian life, Afternoon Men (very much a precursor of Dance).
		But Powell, never especially stage-struck (though he later wrote a couple of plays) and particularly averse to backslapping heartiness, was far from a Garrick type.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3724/is_200212/ai_n9157296 (1249 words)

	Reason: Absent America: How Anthony Powell ignored the elephant in Britain's living room
		This year is the centennial of author Anthony Powell's birth, so it seems only fitting to look back at his classic twelve-volume A Dance to the Music of Time.
		Powell has often been compared to Marcel Proust, and the essence of his cycle of novels is to examine how art can best express the passage of time.
		Had Powell wanted to touch on America, he could have done so most easily in the tenth or eleventh novel of his cycle, both of which cover the postwar period and the beginnings of the Cold War.
	www.reason.com /links/links082505.shtml (1271 words)

	Anthony Powell: Casanova's Chinese Restaurant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		It is their marriages, as well as Nick's own, that Powell uses to illustrate some of the ways in which this institution can develop.
		Powell, on the other hand, is more concerned to paint an effective picture of life in English society in the twenties, thirties and forties.
		Powell introduces a rare note of foreboding into the novel at its beginning, where Nick revisits Soho after the restaurant has been destroyed by wartime bombing, which causes him to remember the events of this time.
	www.geocities.com /smcleish/rev0316.html (475 words)

	Powell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Anthony Powell believed that his father was strongly influenced by the writings of the Aleister Crowley.
		Even when Anthony Powell was living in London, he would often look out the window of his apartment and notice Aleister Crowley walking down the street.
		Anthony Dymoke Powell was born in London on December 21st of 1905.
	www.redflame93.com /Powell.html (1437 words)

	Powell Roots & Branches Family Genealogy Connections
		Anthony was born in Spotsylvania Co. VA and died in Calloway Co. MO.
		Charles E. Powell is researching another Powell line that was planted in Lawrence Co TN from about 1820 until he was born in Oklahoma in 1953.
		Mary Powell Saul was born December 20, 1897 to William Henry Powell and Vina Ann Darrington Powell.
	www.cswnet.com /~brenfroe/connect.htm (1263 words)

	The Anthony Powell Society and Anthony Powell Resources Pages
		A report of the Anthony Powell Centenary Conference held at The Wallace Collection, London on 2 and 3 December 2005.
		A report on the Second Biennial Anthony Powell Conference held at Balliol College, Oxford on 7 and 8 April 2003.
		A report on the First Biennial Anthony Powell Conference held at Eton College on 23 April 2001 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the publication of A Question of Upbringing.
	www.anthonypowell.org.uk /indexnf.htm (844 words)

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