On All Fool's Day 1919 Alfred Edgar Coppard left his job as a clerk-cost accountant at the Eagle Ironworks in Oxford to live alone in a cottage at Shepards Pit, where he began to re-create himself as ...
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Cowley was a respected American writer, editor, and lecturer whose books of literary history and criticism include Exile's Return (1934) and The Lesson of the Masters (1971). Here, he praises C...
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In the following excerpt, Brewster and Burrell illustrate Coppard's versatility in depicting a wide variety of character types and life experiences.
If one were asked what Mr. A. E. Coppard&...
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Bates was one of the masters of the twentieth-century English short story, and was also a respected novelist and contributor of book reviews to the Morning Post and the Spectator. His book The Modern ...
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In the following review of the collection Ugly Anna and Other Tales, the critic admires Coppard's rendering of rural England.
A. E. Coppard once wrote a story about a gentleman, a cook and a...
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Peden is an American critic and educator who has written extensively on the American short story and on such American historical figures as Thomas Jefferson and John Quincy Adams. In the following rev...
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Below, Follett offers a laudatory review of The Collected Tales of A. E. Coppard.
Casting a ballot for A. E. Coppard always seems the combination of a manifest duty with a really acute pleasure. I ...
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O'Connor was an Irish short story writer whose fiction is known for its realistic portrayal of life in Ireland and its detached yet sympathetic humor. O'Connor's critical commenta...
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A Persian-born English novelist, short story writer, and dramatist, Lessing is known as a powerful contemporary writer working primarily in the realist tradition. Her works display a broad range of in...
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Allen is an English novelist of working-class life and a distinguished popular historian and critic of the novel. Below, he discusses "The Higgler, " "Dusky Ruth, " and &#x...
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In the following essay, Gindin discusses similarities between the works of Coppard and H. E. Bates. He also details the prominent themes and techniques employed in Coppard's fiction.
In 1971...
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In the following review, the critic finds fault with several stories in The Black Dog, yet admires many pieces for their distinctive portrayal of rural characters.
Among the diversely mannered tale...
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In this review of Fishmonger's Fiddle, Ould notes the unusual vision of the world that is expressed in Coppard's stones and lauds the subtle craftsmanship of the author's work.
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Here, Warren discusses some general misconceptions regarding modern short fiction and describes Coppard as "the one writer of to-day who is exploiting . . . the best possibilities of the short ...
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In this essay, the critic praises Coppard for providing fresh interpretations of familiar themes.
The bright art of the short story has at the moment no more talented exponent than Mr. A. E. Coppar...
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Ford was a well-known English fiction writer and editor who published numerous novels in his career, including The Good Soldier (1915). Here, he expresses his admiration for Coppard's work and ...
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In this review of Silver Circus, Warren praises Coppard's perceptive portrayal of peasant characters. The critic also finds the book to be proof of Coppard's continuing development as a ...
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The following excerpt is taken from a work in which Coppard provides notes to accompany Schwartz's bibliography of the author's writings. Coppard here reacts to selected reviews and crit...
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In this review, the critic arques that many of the stories in Nixey's Harlequin are inferior to Coppard's previous work because they digress from the main story line and fail to reach a ...
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A(lfred) E(dgar) Coppard
Critical Essay by Malcolm Cowley
