Books by Anthony Powell
Books edited or with contributions by Anthony Powell
Contributions to periodicals
Interviews with and critical articles about Powell
Books of criticism about Powell
Books by or about Powell's circle
Miscellanea
I. Books by Anthony Powell
(In chronological sequence, following George Lilley's 1993 bibliography.)
Afternoon men. 2nd ed. London: Heinemann, 1952. [Lilley A.1(b)]
Afternoon men. 1st paperback ed. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1963. [Lilley A.1(c)]
Venusberg. 2nd ed. London: Heinemann, 1955. [Lilley A.2(b)]
Venusberg. 1st paperback ed. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1961. [Lilley A.2 (c)]
From a view to a death. 2nd ed. London: John Lehmann, 1948. [Lilley A3 (b)(i)]
From a view to a death. 3rd ed. London: Heinemann, 1954. [Lilley A3(b)(ii)]
From a view to a death. 1st paperback ed. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1961. [Lilley A.3(d)]
Agents and patients. 2nd ed. London: Heinemann, 1955. [Lilley A.5(b)]
Agents and patients. 1st paperback ed. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1962. [Lilley A.5(c)]
What's become of Waring. 2nd ed. London: Heinemann, 1953. [Lilley A.6(b)]
What's become of Waring. 1st paperback ed. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1962.
[Lilley A.6(c)]
John Aubrey and his friends. 1st ed., 2nd impression. London: Heinemann, 1948.
[Lilley A.7(a)]
A question of upbringing. [A Dance to the music of time, v.1.] 1st ed. Reprint. London: Heinemann, 1952. [Lilley A.8(a)]
Question d'éducation. Traduit par Renée Villoteau. 1st French ed. Paris: Julliard, 1954. [Lilley A8(a)]
A question of upbringing. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1962. [Lilley A.8(b)]
A buyer's market. [A Dance to the music of time, v.2.] 1st ed. London: Heinemann, 1952. [Lilley A.9(a)]
Les mouvements du coeur. Traduit par Renée Villoteau. 1st French ed. Paris: Julliard, [1955.] [Lilley A.9(a)]
A buyer's market. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1962. [Lilley A.9(b)]
The acceptance world. [A Dance to the music of time, v.3.] 1st ed. London: Heinemann, 1955. [Lilley A.11(a)]
L'acceptation. Traduit par Renée Villoteau. 1st French ed. Paris: Julliard, 1956.
[Lilley A.11(a)]
The acceptance world. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1962. [Lilley A.11(c)]
At Lady Molly's. [A Dance to the music of time, v.4.] 1st ed. London: Heinemann, 1957. [Lilley A.12(a)]
At Lady Molly's. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1963. [Lilley A.12(b)]
Casanova's Chinese restaurant. [A Dance to the music of time, v.5.] 1st ed. London: Heinemann, 1960. [Lilley A.13(a)]
Casanova's Chinese restaurant. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1964. [Lilley A.13(b)]
The kindly ones. [A Dance to the music of time, v. 6.] 1st ed. London: Heinemann, 1962. [Lilley A.14(a)]
The kindly ones. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1965. [Lilley A.14(b)]
The valley of bones. [A Dance to the music of time, v. 7.] 1st ed. London: Heinemann, 1964. [Lilley A.16(a)]
The valley of bones. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968. [Lilley A.16(b)]
The soldier's art. [A Dance to the music of time, v. 8.] 1st ed. London: Heinemann, 1966. [Lilley A.17(a)]
The soldier's art. London: Fontana, 1968. [Lilley A.17(b)]
The military philosophers. [A Dance to the music of time, v. 9.] 1st ed. London: Heinemann, 1968. [Lilley A.18(a)]
The military philosophers. London: Fontana, 1971. [Lilley A.18(b)]
Books do furnish a room. [A Dance to the music of time, v. 10.] 1st ed. London: Heinemann, 1971. [Lilley A.19(a)]
Books do furnish a room. London: Fontana, 1972. [Lilley A.19(b)]
Two plays: The Garden of God; The Rest I'll whistle. 1st English ed. London: Heinemann, 1971. [Lilley A.20(a)]
Temporary kings. [A Dance to the music of time, v.11] 1st ed. London: Heinemann, 1973. [Lilley A.21(a).]
Temporary kings. London: Fontana, 1974. [Lilley A.21(b)]
Hearing secret harmonies. [A Dance to the music of time, v. 12.] 1st ed. London: Heinemann, 1975. [Lilley A.22(a)]
Hearing secret harmonies. London: Fontana, 1977. [Lilley A.22(b).]
Infants of the spring. [To keep the ball rolling; v.1.] 1st ed. London: Heinemann, 1976. [Lilley A.23(a)]
Messengers of the day. [To keep the ball rolling; v.2.] 1st ed. London: Heinemann, 1978. [Lilley A.24(a)]
Faces in my time. [To keep the ball rolling; v.3.] 1st ed. London: Heinemann, 1980.
[Lilley A.25(a)]
The Strangers all are gone. [To keep the ball rolling; v.4.] 1st ed. London: Heinemann, 1982. [Lilley A.26(a)]
O, How the wheel becomes it. 1st ed. London: Heinemann, 1983. [Lilley A.27(a)]
O, How the wheel becomes it. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984. [Lilley A.27(b)]
The Fisher King. 1st ed. London: Heinemann, 1986. [Lilley A.29(a)]
The Fisher King. London: Heinemann, 1987. [Lilley A.29(b)]
Powell, Violet. The album of Anthony Powell's Dance to the Music of Time. London: Thames and Hudson, 1987. [Lilley A.30]
Miscellaneous verdicts. 1st ed. London: Heinemann, 1990. [Lilley A.31]
British eminences: Henry Mee. Opened by the Right Hon. Mr Richard Luce... at Sotheby's London, 22 May 1990. London, Hop Exchange, 23 May to 13 June 1990. [Lilley A.32]
Under review. 1st ed. London: Heinemann, 1991. [Lilley A.33(a)]
Journals, Vol. I 1982-86. London: Heinemann, 1995.
Journals, 1982-1986. Paperback ed. London: Heinemann, 1996. With Anthony Powell's bookplate.
Journals, Vol.II 1987-89. London: Heinemann, 1996.
Journals, Vol.III 1990-92. London: Heinemann, 1997.
II. Books edited or with contributions by Anthony Powell
(In chronological sequence, following George Lilley's 1993 bibliography.)
Barnard letters 1778-1824. Edited by Anthony Powell. London: Duckworth, 1928. [Lilley B.1]
The Old school. Essays by divers hands. Ed., by Graham Greene. London: Jonathan Cape, 1934.
Powell's contribution, 'The wat'ry glade', is on pp. 147-162. [Lilley B.2]
The New Savoy. Edited by Maria Meulen and Francis Wyndham. London: New Savoy Press, 1946.
Powell's contribution, 'A reference for Mellors', is on pp. 111-120. [Lilley B.3]
Novels of high society. Selected with an introduction by Anthony Powell. London: Pilot Press, 1947.
Contains Benjamin Disraeli's Henrietta Temple, G. A. Lawrence's Guy Livingstone and Ouida's Moths [Lilley B.4]
Aubrey, John. Brief lives and other selected writings. Edited by Anthony Powell. London: Cresset Press, 1949. [Lilley B.5]
Hornung, Ernest William (1862-1921). Raffles the amateur cracksman. Introduction by Anthony Powell. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1956. [Lilley B.6]
Bidermanas, Izis (1911-1980). Gala day London. London: Harvill Press, 1953.
[Lilley B.7]
The Artists' and writers' cookbook. Edited by Beryl Barr and Barbara Turner Sachs. Sausalito, California: Contact Editions, 1961.
Powell's recipe for "farmhouse curry" is on pp. 186-9. [Lilley B.8]
Firbank, Ronald. The Complete Ronald Firbank. London: Duckworth, 1961.
Powell's preface is on pp. 5-16. [Lilley B.9]
Winter's Tales 12. Edited by A.D. Maclean. London: Macmillan, 1966.
Powell's contribution, 'A Reference for Mellors', a short story parodying D.H. Lawrence first appeared in The New Savoy, no.1, in 1946. [Not in Lilley. The original appearance is listed as Lilley B.3]
Authors take sides on Vietnam. Edited by Cecil Woolf and John Bagguley. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1967.
Powell's response is on p. 57. [Lilley B.12 describes the English edition by Peter Owen; Lilley does not mention this American edition]
Brian Howard: Portrait of a failure. Edited by Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster. London: Anthony Blond, 1968.
Quotations from Powell pp. 120 and 203-4. [Lilley B.13 ]
Marcel Proust 1871-1922. A centennial volume. Edited by Peter Quennell. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1971.
Powell's contribution, 'Proust as a soldier', is on pp. 147-164. [Lilley B.14 lists the English Weidenfeld and Nicolson edition; this American edition is not recorded.]
Shead, Richard. Constant Lambert, with a memoir by Anthony Powell. [London?]: Simon Publications, 1973.
The composer Hugh Moreland in the Dance sequence is generally thought to be based on Powell's friend, Lambert. Powell's memoir is on pp. 17-26. [Lilley B.15]
Maurice Bowra. Edited by Hugh Lloyd-Jones. London: Duckworth, 1974.
Powell's contribution, 'The Bowra world and Bowra lore', is on pp. 90-105.
[Lilley B.16]
Spurling, Hilary. Handbook to Anthony Powell's Music of Time. London: Heinemann, 1977. Powell's introduction is on pp. vii-viii. [Lilley B.17]
The London library. Edited by Miron Grindea. Ipswich: The Boydell Press Adam Books, 1978.
Powell's contribution, 'Anniversary', is on p. 32. [Lilley B.18]
David K.E. Bruce. Salisbury, Wiltshire: Michael Russell Publishing, 1980.
Privately printed at The Chantry, Wilton (i.e. Powell's house). Powell's contribution, 'Tribute', is on p. 2. [Lilley B.19]
Brooke, Jocelyn (1908-1966). The Orchid trilogy. London: King Penguin, 1981.
Powell's introduction is on pp. 1-12. [Lilley B.20(b)]
Likes and dislikes. Edited by Beryl and George Sims. Privately printed: Tragara Press, 1981.
Powell's entry is on p. 16. Lady Violet Powell's entry is on p.17. [Lilley B.21]
Poems for Roy Fuller on his seventieth birthday. [Oxford]: Sycamore Press, 1982.
Powell's contribution, 'Building Society drinking song', is on p. 7. [Lilley B.22]
Bede, Cuthbert (1827-1889). The Adventures of Verdant Green an Oxford undergraduate. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982.
Powell's introduction is on pp. vi-xvii. [Lilley B.23]
Brooke, Jocelyn (1908-1966). The Image of a drawn sword. London: King Penguin, 1983. Powell's introduction is on pp. 9-12. [Lilley B.24]
Oxford China and Italy: writings in honour of Sir Harold Acton on his eightieth birthday. London: Thames & Hudson, 1984.
Powell's contribution is on pp. 18-19.[Lilley B.26(b)]
Don't tax reading: the case against VAT on knowledge. Compiled by Brenda White and Marita Ewins. London: National Book Committee, 1985.
Powell's contribution is on p. 44. [Lilley B.26(b)]
Howson, Gerald. It takes a thief: the life and times of Jonathan Wild. London: Cresset Library, 1987.
Powell's preface is on pp. xi-xiii. [Lilley G.5]
Seeds in the wind: 20th century juvenilia from W.B. Yeats to Ted Hughes. Edited by Neville Braybrooke. London: Hutchinson, 1989.
Powell's pen-and-ink drawing, 'Colonel Caesar Cannonbrains of the Black Hussars' is the book's frontispiece. It was originally published in The Eton Candle, no.1, 1922, Powell's first appearance in print.
David Cecil : A Portrait. Edited by Hannah Cranborne. Wimborne, Dorset: Dovecote Press, 1990.
Powell's contribution, 'An early friendship', is on pp. 28-31. His son Tristram Powell's 'A television interview' is on pp. 162-5. [Lilley B.28]
III. Contributions to Periodicals
(In chronological sequence, following George Lilley's 1993 bibliography.)
'Sand castle.' Punch, 20 May 1953, pp. 612-13.
Review of Leila: The life of George Sand, by Andre Maurois. [Lilley C.392] Powell was Punch's literary editor from 1953 to 1959.
'Night-thoughts from a day-bed, by Cyr*l C*nn*lly.' Punch, 10 June 1953, pp. 676-7. [Lilley C.394]
'Through French windows.' Punch, 1 July 1953, pp. 778-9.
Review of Notes on Andre Gide, by Roger Martin du Gard and Day of wrath: the autobiography of Maurice Sachs. [Lilley C.398]
[Untitled review of] Mr Stimson and Mr Gorse, by Patrick Hamilton. Punch, 1 July 1953, p. 780. [Lilley C.399]
'Uncle Norman.' Punch, 12 August 1953, pp. 214-15.
Review of Norman Douglas: a pictorial record with a critical and biographical study, by Constantine Fitzgibbon. [Lilley C.405]
'Kafka a trois.' Punch, 30 September 1953, p.414.
Review of Letters to Milena, by Franz Kafka [Lilley C.412]
[Untitled review of] Boswell on the Grand Tour: Germany and Switzerland, 1764; edited by Frederick A. Pottle. Punch, 25 November 1953, p. 647. [Lilley C.423]
[Untitled review of] The life of Joseph Addison, by Peter Smithers. Punch, 27 January 1954, p. 160. [Lilley C.433]
'The pompadour's fan.' Punch, 3 March 1954, p. 301.
Review of Madame de Pompadour, by Nancy Mitford. [Lilley C.439]
'Anchor or banner screen.' Punch, 10 March 1954, p. 318. [Lilley C.440]
'mr e e cummings.' Punch, 10 March 1954, p. 330.
Review of i; six nonlectures, by E.E. Cummings. [Lilley C.441]
'Notes by W. Shakespeare?' Punch, 17 March 1954, pp.359-60.
Review of The annotator, by Alan Keen and Roger Hubbock. [Lilley C.442]
[Untitled review of] The man without qualities (Vol. II), by Robert Musil. Punch, 7 April 1954, p. 450. [Lilley C.445]
'Letters from Flaubert.' Punch, 7 April 1954, p. 450.
Review of Selected letters of Gustave Flaubert; edited, translated and with an introduction by Francis Steegmuller. [Lilley C.446]
[Untitled review of] Rough island story, by Hugh McGraw. Punch, 14 April 1954, p. 479. [Lilley C.447]
'Critic's Spain.' Punch 19 May, 1954, p. 620. Review of The Spanish temper, by V.S. Pritchett. [Lilley C.453]
[Untitled review of] Matthew Arnold; poetry and prose; edited by John Bryson. Punch, 7 July 1954, p. 73. [Lilley C. 457]
'In exile.' Punch, 14 July 1954, p. 100.
Review of The journal of William Beckford in Portugal and Spain, 1787-1788; edited by Boyd Alexander. [Lilley C.458]
'The Duke.' Punch 25 August, 1954, p. 268.
Review of My dear Mrs Jones: the letters of the first Duke of Wellington to Mrs Jones of Pantglas. [Lilley C. 465]
[Untitled review of] A biographical dictionary of British architects, 1660-1840, by H.M. Colvin. Punch 25 August, 1954, p. 269. [Lilley C. 466]
The times of Van Wyck Brooks.' Punch, 1 September 1954, p.295.
Review of Scenes and Portraits, by Van Wyck Brooks. [Lilley C.467]
'Diversities.' Punch, 8 September 1954, p. 324.
Review of People: places; edited by Geoffrey Grigson and C.H. Gibbs-Smith.
[Lilley C.468]
'Half-way between a fiend and a tallow-chandler.' Punch, 22 September 1954, p. 392. Review of John Ruskin, by Joan Evans. [Lilley C.470]
'Love and autumn.' Punch, 6 October 1954, p. 451.
Review of Apollinaire, by Marcel Adema; translated by Denise Folliot. [Lilly C.472]
[Untitled review of] Collected poems, by Frances Cornford. Punch, 13 October 1954, p. 484. [Lilley C.473]
'By way of the chimney, or Christmas with Pirandello.' Punch Almanack for 1955 [i.e. a special issue dated 1 November 1954], p. 3. [Lilley C478]
'Sutherland's Churchill.' Punch, 8 December 1954, p. 710. [Lilley C.485]
'Four studies.' Punch, 8 December 1954, pp. 736-7. Review of Private view, by Jocelyn Brooke. [Lilley C.486]
'The ruthless pencil.' Punch, 29 December 1954, p. 828.
Review of Political and personal satires, 1828-1832, by M. Dorothy George. [Lilley C.488]
[Untitled review of] Early conversation pictures, by Ralph Edwards. Punch, 5 January 1955, p.73. [Lilley C.489]
'Quennell's symbolists.' Punch, 5 January 1955, p.72.
Review of Baudelaire and the symbolists, by Peter Quennell. [Lilley C.490]
'Michael Angelo Titmarsh.' Punch, 18 January 1956, p.128.
Review of Thackeray: the uses of adversity, 1811-1846, by Gordon N. Ray. [Lilley C.545]
[Untitled review of] Old Calabria, by Norman Douglas. Punch, 1 February 1956, p.185.
[Lilley C.546]
'Evelyn revisited.' Punch, 8 February 1956, p. 212.
Review of The diary of John Evelyn; edited by E.S. de Beer. [Lilley C.547]
'Chesterfield writes again.' Punch, 15 February 1956, pp. 220-1.
[A pastiche of Dr Johnson's patron.] [Lilley C.548]
'Kind hearts less than coronets.' Punch, 15 February 1956, p. 239.
Review of Saint-Simon: memoirs; texte etabli et annoté par Gonzague Truc. 5 vols. [Lilley C.549]
'Lorenzo the critical.' Punch, 29 February 1956, pp. 280-1.
Review of D.H. Lawrence: selected literary criticism; edited by Anthony Beal. [Lilley C.550]
[Untitled review of] Selected letters of Henry James; edited by Leon Edel. Punch, 7 March 1956, p. 302. [Lilley C.551]
'Critics and Conrad.' Punch, 1 January 1958, p. 76.
Review of Joseph Conrad: achievement and decline, by Thomas Moser; Joseph Conrad and his characters, by Richard Curle. [Lilley C.652]
'Unable to bear arms.' Punch, 28 May 1958, p. 719.
Review of Hitler's Youth, by Franz Jetzinger. [Lilley C.678]
'Anger's self I needs must kiss.' Punch, 4 June 1958, pp. 755-6.
Review of The angry decade: a survey of the cultural trends of the nineteen-fifties, by Kenneth Allsop. [Lilley C.679]
'French without tears.' Punch, 9 July 1958, pp.55-6.
Review of An age of fiction: the French novel from Gide to Camus, by Germaine Bree and Margaret Guiton. [Lilley C.685]
'Johnsonian gleanings.' Punch, 24 December 1958, p. 844.
Review of Diaries, prayers and annals of Samuel Johnson; edited by E.L. McAdam, Jr, with Donald and Mary Hyde. [Lilley C.713]
'The pleasures of knowing Rose Macaulay.' Encounter 12 no. 3, pp. 29-30, March 1959. [Lilley C.722]
'Carmen to Cottard'. Encounter 12 no. 5, pp. 71-3, May 1959.
Review of 'Bizet and his world', [Lilley C.728]
'The Djilas Case', Encounter XIX no.1, p.94, July 1962.
Powell is one of over 100 British signatories to a short letter. [Lilley C.830]
'A Bottle of wine at the Cavendish.' The Compleat Imbiber 6. Ed. by Cyril Ray. Vista Books, 1963. [Lilley C.866]
'Not well ordered until 1670 - John Aubrey and some seventeenth century drinking', The Compleat Imbiber 7. Ed. by Cyril Ray. Studio Vista Ltd., 1964. [Lilley C.898]
'Berlin tempo.' Apollo, LXXXVI n.s. no. 68, p. 316, October 1967.
Review of Ecce Homo, by George Grosz, with an introduction by Henry Miller. [Lilley C.989]
'The importance of being Ernst.' Apollo LXXXVII n.s. no. 73, pp. 225-6, March 1968. Review of Max Ernst: his life and work, by John Russell. [Lilley C.1005]
'Some pages from the Sixties.' London Magazine, 9 nos. 4 & 5, p. 159, July/August 1969. Anthony Powell's contribution is one page of manuscript from The music of time. [Not in Lilley]
'Cyrus Redding : wine and friends', The Compleat Imbiber 10. Ed. by Cyril Ray. London: Hutchinson, 1969. [Lilley C1045]
'Remembrance of meals past : a glance at food and wine in Proust', The Compleat Imbiber 11. Ed. by Cyril Ray. Hutchinson, 1970. [Lilley C1074]
'Going into Europe - again?' Encounter 36 no. 6, p.5, June 1971. [Lilley C1100] Powell's is a three-line contribution to a symposium.
'My grandfather dined at the Deux Empereurs', The Compleat Imbiber 12. Ed. by Cyril Ray. London: Hutchinson, 1971. [Lilley C1110]
'The Secret of Abraham.' Apollo XLV n.s. no. 121, p.226, March 1972. Review of Sickert: the painter and his circle, by Marjorie Lilly. [Lilley C1122]
'The flight from romanticism: Picasso's last great harlequinade.' Encounter 40 no. 2, pp. 53-55, February 1973. [Lilley C1149]
'Inez Holden: a memoir', London Magazine, 14 no. 4, pp. 88-94, October/November 1974. [Lilley C1198]
'An 18th century change in Powell ownership of the Traveley.' Transactions of the Radnorshire Society, LIII pp. 65-8, 1983. [Lilley C1459]
'Radnorshire records among the archives of Balliol College, Oxford.' Transactions of the Radnorshire Society, LIV pp.38-40, 1984. [Lilley C1488]
35 reviews by Anthony Powell from The Times Literary Supplement with references to George Lilley's A Bibliography. [A scrapbook of newspaper clippings compiled by John Stacpoole. The Lilley numbers for the reviews included are C.113, C.116, C.118, C.125, C.127, C.129, C.130, C.138, C.141, C.146, C.148, C.152, C.153, C.163, C.164, C.169, C.173, C.183, C.184, C.192, C.195, C.199, C.206, C.207, C.224, C.229, C.234, C.239, C.242, C.263, C.275 (incomplete), C.279, C.280, C.296. Plus Violet Powell's review of Burke's Irish family records from a 1976 issue of TLS.]
Photocopies of 16 reviews from Apollo, February 1965-April 1983. [The Lilley numbers for the reviews are C.911, C.935, C.989, C.1005, C.1028, C.1068, C.1122, C.1139, C.1151, C.1154, C.1177, C.1262, C.1281, C.1391, C.1422, C.1439.]
IV. Interviews with and critical articles about Powell
(In chronological sequence; many of these are not recorded in Lilley.)
'Never too much alteration.' Books and Bookmen 3 no. 2, p. 15, November 1957.
Part of the magazine's 'Author at work' series. [Not in Lilley]
Norrie, Ian. 'The master ironist.' Review of Casanova's Chinese restaurant. Books and Bookmen, 5 no.10, p. 7, July 1960. The issue also features a cover portrait of Powell by Clayton Evans. [Not in Lilley]
Gransden, K.W. 'Talk of the old time.' Review of The Soldier's art. Encounter XXVII, no. 6, pp.106-108, December 1966. [Not in Lilley]
Glazebrook, Mark. 'The art of Horace Isbister, E. Bosworth Deacon and Ralph Barnby'. London Magazine 7 no. 8, pp. 76-82, November 1967. [Not in Lilley]
Fuller, Roy. 'From Blackheath to Oxford.' London Magazine 8 no.12, pp. 24-31, March 1969. Includes a reference to Anthony Powell's The military philosophers on p. 29.
[Not in Lilley]
'Anthony Powell from the Music of Time', London Magazine 100, London, 1969.
[Not in Lilley]
'Anthony Powell: a symposium.' Summary I, 1, pp. 34-128, Autumn 1970. The symposium consists of 17 English and American contributors, including Naomi Bliven, Jilly Cooper, Roy Fuller, Arthur Schlesinger Jr, Alison Lurie, Roland Gant, Jerome Weidman. Powell is interviewed on pp. 129-139. [Lilley F.6 The interview has a separate Lilley listing, E.7]
Swinden, Patrick. 'Powell's Hearing secret harmonies.' Critical Quarterly 18 no.4 pp.51-60, Winter 1976. [Not in Lilley]
Tucker, James. 'A Guide to A Dance to the music of time.' The New Review, Vol.2, no.17, pp.25-37, August 1975. [Not in Lilley]
'Anthony Powell.' (The Art of fiction LXVIII). Paris Review, no. 73, pp. 45-79, 1978. [Lilley E.10] An interview; signed Michael Barber.
A Scrapbook for Anthony Powell. [Two volumes of English and New Zealand newspaper clippings compiled by John Stacpoole. A few items have Lilley references; C.308, D.21, E.9 and F.1 are the relevant numbers. Two letters - one from Powell, dated '14 April 1977', and one from Lady Violet, dated '6 June 1995', are included in the first volume. Many obituaries for Powell are included in the second volume.]
V. Books of criticism about Powell
(In chronological sequence; several of these are not recorded in Lilley.)
Hall, James. 'The uses of polite surprise', The Tragic comedians: seven modern British novelists. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1963.
Chapter 9, 'The uses of polite surprise', on pp. 129-150, is devoted to Powell.
[Not in Lilley]
Morris, Robert K. The early novels of Anthony Powell: a thematic study. University of Wisconsin, 1964.
Photocopy of Doctoral thesis from University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, 1969.
[Not in Lilley]
Wain, John. Essays on literature and ideas. London: Macmillan, 1966.
Wain's dismissal of the Dance sequence as 'possibly the most unreadable work of our time' is on p.43.
Russell, John. Anthony Powell: A Quintet sextet and war. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1970. [Not in Lilley]
Bergonzi, Bernard. Anthony Powell. Writers and their works series, no.221, revised and enlarged. British Council, 1971. [Lilley F.7]
Davin, Dan. Snow upon fire: A Dance to the music of time: Anthony Powell, the W.D. Thomas Memorial Lecture delivered at the College on 16th November, 1976. Swansea, Wales: University College of Swansea, 1976. [Lilley F.11]
Tucker, James. The novels of Anthony Powell. London: Macmillan, 1976. [Not in Lilley]
The New Pelican guide to English literature 8. The present. Edited by Boris Ford. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1983. There are frequent references to Powell.
Lilley, George. Anthony Powell: A bibliography. Winchester, England: St Paul's Bibliographies, 1993.
VI. Books by or about Powell's circle
(In alphabetical sequence, focusing on the subjects of biographies rather than the biographers)
Amis, Kingsley (1922-1995). Memoirs. London: Hutchinson, 1991.
Spurling, Hilary. Ivy when young, the early life of I. Compton-Burnett. 1884-1919. London: Gollancz, 1974.
Powell reviewed the book; see Lilley C.1183. Spurling and Powell were friends; she wrote the Handbook to Anthony Powell's Music of Time. Violet Powell compiled a compendium to Compton-Burnett's work.
Cockburn, Claud (1904-1981). I, Claud. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1967.
References to Powell on pp. 356-358.
Connolly, Cyril (1903-1974). Enemies of promise. Rev. ed. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1949.
Powell and Connelly were at Eton and Oxford together. Connolly's wife, Barbara Skelton, is generally thought to be the model for Pamela Flitton in the Dance sequence.
Connolly, Cyril (1903-1974). Golden horizon. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1953. An anthology of contributions to Horizon magazine. While Powell does not appear, many of his associates do.
Connolly, Cyril (1903-1974). The Rock pool. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1947.
Connolly, Cyril [as "Palinurus"]. The Unquiet grave. London: Hamilton, 1945.
Fisher, Clive. Cyril Connolly, the life and times of England most controversial literary critic. New York: St Martin's Press, 1996.
Pryce-Jones, David. Cyril Connolly: journal and memoir. London: Collins, 1983.
Ovenden, Keith. A Fighting retreat: the life of Dan Davin. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Davin admired the Dance sequence, was influenced by it in his own fiction and eventually delivered a lecture about it, Snow upon fire. Ovenden uses a quote from the Dance sequence as an epigraph to every chapter of his biography.
Eton 1440-1990: portrait, programme and catalogue. Eton College: 1990. First editions of Powell's books were part of the exhibition. [Not in Lilley]
Fleming, Ann. The Letters of Ann Fleming. Edited by Mark Amory. London: Collins Harvill, 1985.
Powell is not a correspondent, but there are several references to him, often from Evelyn Waugh
Fuller, Roy (1912-1991). Available for dreams. London: Collins Harvill, 1989.
'Secret Harmonies' on p. 99 refers to Powell's Hearing Secret Harmonies. Gibson Delavacquerie in the Dance sequence is partly modelled on Powell's friend, Fuller.
Fuller, Roy (1912-1991). Spanner & pen: an autobiography. London: Sinclair Stevenson, 1991.
There are occasional admiring references to the Dance sequence in this post-war memoir.
Green, Henry (pseudonym of Henry Vincent Yorke, 1905-1973). Back. London: Hogarth Press, 1946.
Jacket by Vanessa Bell. Some have thought that Powell's friend Green was the model for Charles Stringham in the Dance sequence, but Powell always firmly refuted this.
Green, Henry (1905-1973). Caught. London: Hogarth Press, 1978.
Green, Henry (1905-1973). Concluding. London: Hogarth Press, 1948.
Green, Henry (1905-1973). Doting. London: Hogarth Press, 1952.
Green, Henry (1905-1973). Loving. 3rd impression. London: Hogarth Press, 1948.
Green, Henry (1905-1973). Nothing. London: Hogarth Press, 1950.
Green, Henry (1905-1973). Pack my bag. London: Hogarth Press, 1979
Green, Henry (1905-1973). Party going. London: Hogarth Press, 1952.
Green, Henry (1905-1973). Surviving: the uncollected writings of Henry Green. Edited by Matthew Yorke, with an introduction by John Updike. London: Chatto & Windus, 1999.
Stokes, Edward. The novels of Henry Green. London: Hogarth Press, 1959.
Greene, Graham (1904-1991). Yours etc; letters to the press. Selected and introduced by Christopher Hawtree. Harmondsworth: Reinhardt in association with Viking, 1989. Powell and Greene were at Oxford together.
Sherry, Norman. The life of Graham Greene. Vol.I: 1904-1939. Harmondsworth: Viking/Penguin, 1989.
Sherry, Norman. The life of Graham Greene. Vol.II: 1939-1955. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1996.
Hutchinson, Lucy. Memoirs of the life of Colonel Hutchinson written by his widow Lucy. London: Kegan, Paul, Trench and Trubner, 1904.
On p. 140 there is a reference to 'one Mr. Widmerpoole, a man of good extraction, but reduc'd to a small fortune'.
Motion, Andrew. The Lamberts: George, Constant and Kit. London: Chatto & Windus, 1986.
Levin, Bernard, (1928-). If you want my opinion. London: Jonathan Cape, 1992.
On pp. 232-5 there is a reprint of F.17, 'One of the sillier grudges in the music hall of time', under a new title, 'Countercheck quarrelsome'. This is a comment on the breach in 1964 between Powell and Muggeridge.
Longford, Elizabeth Harman Pakenham, Countess of, (1906-). The Pebbled shore: the memoirs of Elizabeth Longford. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986.
There are several references to Powell. Elizabeth Longford is Violet Powell's sister-in-law.
Maclaren-Ross, Julian (1912-1964). The funny bone. London: Ekel Press, 1956.
This miscellany of parodies, stories, sketches and essays is dedicated to Powell. The down-at-heel novelist X. Trapnel in the Dance sequence is generally thought to be based on Maclaren-Ross.
'Mark Members' (i.e. Roy Fuller). Iron Aspidistra. Oxford: Sycamore Press, 1985.
A poem written as a tribute to Powell on his 80th birthday. Members is a recurring character in the Dance sequence. A spoof biography of Members and a reproduction of part of the manuscript are included. The Stacpoole copy has a letter from the publisher tipped in. [Lilley F.14]
Muggeridge, Malcolm (1903-1990). Like it was: the diaries of Malcolm Muggeridge. Collins, 1981.
While admitting some resemblances, Powell refuted claims that Lindsay Bagshaw in the Dance sequence was based on his old friend Muggeridge.
Muggeridge, Malcolm (1903-1990). Chronicles of wasted time: the infernal grove. London: Collins, 1973.
Muggeridge's friendship with Powell is described on p.253.
Ingrams, Richard. Muggeridge. London: HarperCollins, 1996.
There are frequent references to Powell. His rift with Muggeridge, caused by the latter's negative review of The Valley of bones in 1964, is described on pp. 197-9. The positive review that Muggeridge later wrote of Hearing secret harmonies, in which he sums up the Dance sequence as a whole, is included in the first volume of A Scrapbook for Anthony Powell.
Crick, Bernard. George Orwell. Secker & Warburg, 1980.
Orwell was two years ahead of Powell at Eton, but their friendship began at a later date. There are frequent references to Powell in this biography.
Petronius. Satyricon. Burnaby's 1694 translation, with an introduction by Scott Moncrieff, ornamented by Martin Travers. London: Simpkins, Marshall, Hamilton & Kent, [1923].
Petronius is the fourth item listed among Powell's 'likes' in Sims' Likes and dislikes.
Barber, Michael. Anthony Powell : a life. London: Duckworth Overlook, 2004.
Powell, Lady Violet. The Departure platform: an autobiography. London: Heinemann, 1998. This is the third volume of Lady Violet's memoirs.
Sothebys. Modern first editions, letters and manuscripts, the property of Anthony Hobson Esq. London: Sotheby's, 28 June 1996.
Anthony Hobson, the distinguished bibliographer, is frequently mentioned in Powell's Journals. None of Powell's books is included in the catalogue.
Waugh, Evelyn (1903-1966). A little learning. London, Methuen, 1964.
Powell and Waugh were at Oxford together. Waugh describes their acquaintanceship on pp. 201-2.
Waugh, Evelyn. Letters. Edited by Mark Amory. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982. There are several letters to Powell, dating back to 1927.
Miscellanea
A Dance to the music of time. Videocassette edition of the eight-hour 1997 UK Channel 4 television series, directed by Christopher Morahan and Alvin Rakoff, adapted by Hugh Whitemore and featuring Simon Russell Beale as Kenneth Widmerpool.
Beacon Press photographic print of Nicholas Poussin's 1639 painting A Dance to the music of time (Il Ballo della Vita Humana).
Photograph of Anthony Powell, taken by Nick Powell [no relation] in 1986.
The Independent, 29 March 2000. [Powell's death is reported in the Home News section, p.6. Hilary spurling's obituary appears in the Review section, p.6.]
Order of service for the Powell memorial service at Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley Street, London, 4 May 2000.
The Anthony Powell Society. Newsletter. Issue 1, Winter 2000- Issue 11, Summer 2003
The Anthony Powell Society. First Biennial Anthony Powell conference, Monday 23 April 2001, Eton College, Windsor, UK. Programme and booking form. Delegates information.
The Anthony Powell Society. Proceedings of the First Biennial Anthony Powell Conference 2001. Edited by George Lilley and Keith Marshall. Greenford: the Society, 2001.
Photograph of John Stacpoole at the opening of the Powell exhibition held in the Special Collections of Auckland Central City Library, 21 October to 16 December 2000.
Photograph of John Stacpoole with Dr Judith Medlicott at the above function.
Powell, Lady Violet to Donald Kerr. Letters (4) re the Powell exhibition, dated '29 August 2000', '2 October 2000, '1 November 2000' and 'Nov, 2000' [postmarked '27.11.00'].
Powell, Anthony to Dr Judith Medlicott. Letters (5), dated '15 December 1988', '22 May 1989', '31 August 1989', '15 October 1989', '12 Decenver [sic] 1990' and '22 December 1998'. Photocopies.
Medlicott, Dr Judith to Anthony Powell. Letters (3), dated '8 August 1988', '16 August 1989' and '18 December 1998', her letter of condolence to Lady Violet on '7 April 2000' and Lady Violet's response dated '12.4.00'. Photocopies. [Use of these is contingent on Dr Medlicott's permission.]
Stacpoole, John. A visit to the Chantry, 11 May 2002.
Photographs of Anthony Powell's house, The Chantry. May 2002.
Allason, Julian and Keith Marshall. Models for characters in Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time. 2000. (http://www.anthonypowell.org.uk/dance/dancewho.htm )
'Anthony Powell on writing A Dance to the Music of Time' (http://www.anthonypowell.org.uk/dance/apdance.htm ) | 
