Here is an account of Powys lecturing:
Once I heard him talk on Hardy for over two hours to an audience of over two thousand in a huge auditorium in the heart of Chicago's slums; throughout those one hundred and thirty odd minutes there was not a sound from his listeners save an occasional roar of applause or laughter; and when he had finished speaking we rose like one person to our feet, demanding more. The man was a great actor.(Maurice Browne, Too Late to Lament)
I have made a pilgrimage to Phudd Bottom, in Upstate New York, where Powys lived for some years.
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