Vol 3 of A Dance to the Music of Time, a pencil and a cup of coffee on a marble counter
Reading vol 3 of #ADancetotheMusicofTime by #AnthonyPowell and watching episode 2 of the 1997 miniseries adapted from the books… Did you watch the series with your #anthonypowelltogether people, @alisonjaye.bsky.social?
Volume 2 of A Dance to the Music of Time featuring a detail from the eponymous Poussin painting, and a cup of coffee
Here we go! Volume 2 of A Dance to the Music of Time by #AnthonyPowell…
#Booksy 📚
Pencil (or perhaps ink?) sketch of a young man, seated, reading.
One more by #Hamnett - a late-1920s sketch of #AnthonyPowell "at the start of their affair."
A dance to the music of time by ANTHONY POWELL * 1ST MOVEMENT Held up in front of the sea
I’m finally catching up! I’m reading A Dance to the Music of Time by #AnthonyPowell and I’ll never again see a sugar dispenser without thinking about Winderpool…
#Booksy 📚
Wonderful!
A dance to the music of time ...
#AnthonyPowell
He certainly dressed the part, there's a photo of him in the memoirs of #AnthonyPowell
Miss Potter (2006)
Miss Potter (2006)
Miss Potter (2006)
On this day in 2006, Miss Potter premiered, with costumes by Anthony Powell! Check out our review on FrockFlicks.com at frockflicks.com/beatrix-pott...
#MissPotter #BeatrixPotter #AnthonyPowell #19thCenturyCostume #HistoricalCostume #HistoricalMovie
Notes from the bookfair:
I rather covet this fine association copy first edition of 'Agents and patients', which #AnthonyPowell presented to his great chum #ConstantLambert
Maybe I could do one of those firestarter or crowdfunder thingies to raise the £4.5k?
Irritated by what he judged the 'impacted cliches' of some review, Trapnel had once spoken his own opinions on the art of biography. 'People think because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Because a novel's invented, it is true. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they can't include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that. The novelist himself lays it down. His decision is binding. The bio- grapher, even at his highest and best, can be only tentative, empirical. The autobiographer, for his part, is imprisoned in his own egotism. He must always be suspect. In contrast with the other two, the novelist is a god, creating his man, making him breathe and walk. The man, created in his own image, provides information about the god. In a sense you know more about Balzac and Dickens from their novels, than Rousseau and Casanova from their Confessions."
And speaking of truth in biography (as I was), here's X Trapnel expounding on the subject in Hearing Secret Harmonies, the final volume of A Dance to the Music of Time:
#AnthonyPowell #XTrapnel #DTMT 📚
More and more, one finds solace in the clear-eyed astringent prose of Anthony Powell.
I mean - what could fit this hideous moment better? "One of the worst things about life is not how nasty the nasty people are. You know that already. It is how nasty the nice people can be."
#AnthonyPowell
Happy Birthday Anthony Powell. (RIP) #HappyBirthdayAnthonyPowell #AnthonyPowell #Birthday #RIPAnthonyPowell #RestInPeace #Legends #Legend
English costume designer Anthony Powell, best known for his Art Deco-inspired costumes for 1970s Agatha Christie adaptations “Death on the Nile” and “Evil Under the Sun”, was BOTD in 1935. #anthonypowell #bornonthisday #maybegays
On this day 25 years ago I was one of a group of 6 who founded the Anthony Powell Society. Find the story on my blog at zenmischief.com/2025/06/the-....
#AnthonyPowell #AnthonyPowellSociety #books #literature #personal #zenmischief #blog
This is a little-known representation of #AnthonyPowell working at Duckworth's in Covent Garden in the 1920s
Evil Under the Sun (1982)
On this day in 1982, Evil Under the Sun premiered, with costumes by Anthony Powell! Check out our review on FrockFlicks.com at buff.ly/49z1Gbu
#EvilUnderTheSun #AnthonyPowell #1930sFashion #HistoricalCostume #MurderMystery #Poirot
Does anyone here like #AnthonyPowell? My British father who passed in 2023 was obsessed w Powell his whole life and I have resolved to read Dance to the Music of Time series. An acquired taste I think. #booksky #booksaboutenglishlife #bookclubfiction #AQuestionofUnbringing
"I get a warm feeling among my books." – Anthony Powell
Some places feel like home, even when they’re just pages and ink. 📚✨
#Books #Reading #AnthonyPowell
A woman's head in profile, with very short blond bobbed hair. The disembodied head floats among green ferns, sprigs of lily of the valley, and a green flying bird, with a set of cream-coloured curtains spread open above it.
For #AnthonyPowell & DTMT devotees only:
Portrait of Marion Coates by John Banting (1902-1972).
She was AP's lover until just before his coup de foudre for Violet. According to Hilary Spurling's AP bio and Violet Powell herself (p.332-33), she was also the inspiration for DTMT's Jean Duport.
Poussin painting of four dancers , various cherubs and a musician, in front of a cloudy landscape.
Also on the love list - Poussin's 'A Dance to the Music of Time' - and yes, I'm re-reading the novel (again). Endless thanks to my former colleague Graeme Cannon for immaculate book recs. #wallacecollection #art #poussin #anthonypowell wallacelive.wallacecollection.org/eMP/eMuseumP...
On this day in 2006, Miss Potter premiered, with costumes by Anthony Powell! Check out our review on FrockFlicks.com at https://buff.ly/4954m1a
#MissPotter #AnthonyPowell #BeatrixPotter #1900sFashion #EdwardianCostume #HistoricalCostume #HistoricalMovie
Anthony Powell, writer, in a garden with his arms folded on his chest and his cat Trelawney on his left shoulder.
"In the course of my own reading I have often found the trivial to be more acceptable, even more instructive in the long run, than some attempts at being profound."
- Anthony Powell, in The Strangers Are All Gone, the final volume of his memoirs (1982)
#AnthonyPowell #Caturday
@literaturesc.bsky.social will lead a slow-read of #ADanceToTheMusicofTime #AnthonyPowell in 2024 - please join us! From 2000 to 2001, he led #ProustTogether .
