Coppard, A. E. | A. E. Coppard (essay date 1931)
A. E. Coppard (essay date 1931)
SOURCE: The Writings of Alfred Edgar Coppard, by Jacob Schwartz and A. E. Coppard, The Ulysses Bookshop, 1931, 73 p.
[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 criticisms of his short story collections.]
The reviews [of Clorinda Walks in Heaven] on the whole were . . . very friendly, and The Outlook began its notice with a headline, "The Critic Walks in Heaven", but there was certainly one justifiable protest from an Irish paper:
To crowd two illegitimate births, five deaths, and one murder into nine short stories is something of a strain on one's patience in a country where there are plenty of things to breed pessimism.
I got a really colossal biff from the Sunday Times:—
Mr. A. E....
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