SOURCE: A review of Adam and Eve and Pinch Me, in The Dial, Chicago, Vol. LXXI, July, 1921, pp. 93-5.

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 Coppard's work for blending realism with fantasy and combining some of the characteristics of romance literature with a distinctly modern sensibility.

Some of the stories [in Adam and Eve and Pinch Me] are pure fantasy. Coppard begins: "In the great days that are gone I was walking the Journey upon its easy smiling roads and came one morning of windy spring to the side of a wood." He goes on to tell how he met Monk, "the fat fellow as big as two men but with the clothes of a small one squeezing the joints of him together," and how Monk...