Word: rhapsodists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sebastian speaks his piece in a vivid, gifted, rather artificial language, like a Celtic rhapsodist. Sample...
...that in certain directions I have as powerful an imagination as Swift." He thinks he is "too much of a demented satyr and too much of a fanatical saint." He admits, however, that his enemies call him "a tiresome poseur, full of silly affectations, and a long-winded, tedious rhapsodist." Powys realizes that his literary reputation is not comparable with his brothers', Theodore and Llewellyn, comforts himself with the statement that his writing is "simply so much propaganda ... for my philosophy of life." What that philosophy is he has never, in his 62 years, been able to make clear...