SOURCE: "Half Pixie and Half Bird," in New York Herald Tribune Books, February 27, 1927, p. 4.

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 notes that the author's stories contain the same qualities found in the verse of several seventeenth-century British poets.

Mr. Coppard has been so long for me the White Hope of British literature that I can't get out of the habit of so regarding him, though there may well be others in Great Britain to-day. I am, however, so out of touch with the writers of my own country and for me the authors of today are so almost exclusively French or American that I may well be perpetrating an injustice to one or other English writer. Be that as it may, for me Mr. Coppard...