Word: hedgerowed
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Dates: during 1927-1927
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...FIELD OF MUSTARD-A. E. Coppard-Knopf ($2.50). Short-Storyteller Coppard, nut-brown pantheist, transcribes life in hedgerow England with a simplicity that seems accurate and genuine. His overtones are of something dark, gentle, gypsyesque. Some themes: an errant stag and a hearty poacher; lusty village women, lying in a mustard field after fagot-gathering, wish that love could return; the noblesse oblige of a lonely schoolmaster and a proud lady; two aging, air-plant spinsters and how one of them nearly took root in village soil...