"The strongest of all psychic forces in the world is unsatisfied desire."
A Glastonbury Romance
English novelist John Cowper Powys died #OTD in 1963.
He appeared with a volume of verse in 1896 and a first novel in 1915, but gained success only with his novel Wolf Solent in 1929. He has been seen as a successor to Thomas Hardy, and Wolf Solent, A Glastonbury Romance, Weymouth Sands, and Maiden Castle have been called his Wessex novels.