SOURCE: "The Words for Invisible Things: The Short Stories (1916-1924)," in From the Sunken Garden: The Fiction of Ellen Glasgow, 1916-1945, Louisiana State University Press, 1980, pp. 53-78.
In the first sustained piece of criticism on Glasgow's short stories since Richard K. Meeker's 1963 essay, Raper argues that Glasgow's stories were written during a time of aesthetic and emotional crisis and reflect her search for a new language to express the workings of the deepest reaches of human consciousness.
