A. E. Coppard

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Alfred Edgar Coppard ( January 4 1878 – January 13, 1957) was an English writer, noted for his influence on the short story form, and poet. He was born in Folkestone, and had little formal education.

In the early 1920s, and still unpublished, he was in Oxford and a leading light of a literary group, the New Elizabethans, who met in a pub to read Elizabethan drama. W. B. Yeats sometimes attended the meetings. At this period he met Richard Hughes and Edgell Rickword, amongst others.

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Adam & Eve & Pinch Me (collection) 1921
Clorinda Walks in Heaven (collection) 1922
Hips and Haws (poetry collection) 1922
The Black Dog and Other Stories (collection) 1923
Fishmonger's Fiddle: Tales (collection) 1925
The Field of Mustard (collection) 1926
Yokohoma Garland & Other Poems (poetry collection) 1926
Pelaga & Other Poems (poetry collection) 1926
"Count Stefan" (individual story) 1928
Silver Circus (collection) 1928
The Collected Poems OF A. E. Coppard (poetry collection) 1928
"The Gollan" (individual story) 1929
"The Higgler" (individual story) 1930
"Easter Day" (individual poem) 1931
"These Hopes of Heavan" (individual poem) 1934
Cherry Ripe, Poems (poetry collection) 1935
"The Man From Kilsheelan" (individual story) 1920
"Pink Furniture" (individual story) 1930
"The Hundredth Story of A. E. Coppard" (individual story) 1931
Nixey's Harlequin (collection) 1931
Fare Please! (collection) 1931
"Cheefoo" (individual story) 1932
Crotty Shinkwin and the Beauty Spot (two stories) 1932
"Rummy, That Noble Game" (individual story) 1932
Dunky Fitlow (collection) 1933
Ring the Bells of Heavan (collection) 1933
"Emergency Exit" (individual story) 1934
"Good Samaritan" (individual story) 1934
Pink Furniture (collection) 1935
Polly Oliver (collection) 1935
Ninepenny Flute (collection) 1937
"Tapster's Tapestry" (individual story) 1938
You Never Know, Do You? (collection) 1939
Ugly Anna (collection) 1944
Fearful Pleasures (collection) 1946
Selected Tales (collection) 1946
The Dark Eyed Lady - Fourteen Tales (collection) 1947
"A Carol" (individual poem) 1947
Collected Tales (collection) 1948
Lucy in Her Pink Coat (collection) 1954
It's Me, O Lord! (autobiography) 1957
Selected Stories (collection) 1972
The Collected Tales of A. E. Coppard (collection) 1976
Simple Day: Selected Poems (poetry collection) 1978
The Higgler and Other Stories (collection) 1991
The Man from the Caravan and Other Stories (collection) 1999
Father Raven and Other Tales (collection) 2006

Works Specifically About A. E. Coppard:

Fabes, Gilbert H., The First Editions of A. E. Coppard, A. P. Herbert and Charles Morgan, 1933 London: Myers.
Saul, George Brandon, A.E. Coppard: His Life and Poetry,1932, University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D. dissertation.
Schwartz, Jacob with foreword and notes by A. E. Coppard, A Bibliography of A. E. Coppard - The Writings of Alfred Edgar Coppard, 1931.