Beautifully constructed short stories, with more than a hint of poetry in the word choices and syntax.
Mr. Coppard's implicit theme is the closeness of the spiritual world to the material; the strange, communicative sympathy which strikes through two temperatures and suddenly makes them one. He deals with those sudden impulses under which secrecy is broken down for a moment, and personality revealed as under a flash of spiritual lightning.
Contents
Marching to Zion -- Dusky Ruth -- Weep not my wanton -- Piffingcap -- The King of the World -- Adam and Eve and pinch me -- The princess of kingdom gone -- Communion -- The quiet woman -- The trumpeters -- The angel and the sweep -- Arabesque -- Felix Tincler -- The elixir of youth -- The cherry tree -- Clorinda walks in heaven -- Craven arms -- Cotton -- A broadsheet ballad -- Pomona's babe -- The hurly-burly.
Mr. Coppard's implicit theme is the closeness of the spiritual world to the material; the strange, communicative sympathy which strikes through two temperatures and suddenly makes them one. He deals with those sudden impulses under which secrecy is broken down for a moment, and personality revealed as under a flash of spiritual lightning.
Contents
Marching to Zion -- Dusky Ruth -- Weep not my wanton -- Piffingcap -- The King of the World -- Adam and Eve and pinch me -- The princess of kingdom gone -- Communion -- The quiet woman -- The trumpeters -- The angel and the sweep -- Arabesque -- Felix Tincler -- The elixir of youth -- The cherry tree -- Clorinda walks in heaven -- Craven arms -- Cotton -- A broadsheet ballad -- Pomona's babe -- The hurly-burly.