SOURCE: "Jane Urquhart's Short Stories in the Landscape of the Poet," in Quill and Quire, Vol. 53, No. 7, July, 1987, p. 64.

In the review below, Bradbury discusses Storm Glass, its imagery and symbolism, its poetic quality, and its similarities to the works of the Romantics.

"It was an attraction to the mysterious 'other'," says poet and novelist Jane Urquhart, "that started me writing short fiction … that wild desire to explain, if only to myself, a landscape, an era, a human being, an event, about which I had little knowledge and to which I had but limited access…. Writing fiction can be, you see, the most satisfying form of armchair travel…. And as I look out my window to the white of the field, the diagonals of the rail fence and the horizontals of the winter trees, I'm grateful, also, that my armchair is situated where it is."

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