A Breath of Air Folk & Fairy and narrative styles

and narrative styles

the relations between modern poetry

and God” and “Aristotle

remarks in his Introduction: Haecker has written a book about a poet and his poetry which is also “a book about love and work

Lockerd is Professor of English at Grand Valley State University

A Breath of Air Folk & Fairy and narrative stylesWe are such stuff as dreams are made on: and our little life is rounded with a sleep, cries Prospero in Shakespeares The Tempestfrom which play Rumer Godden took the story of this novel, A Breath of Air. In cast of character and plot structure, parallels are certainly presentMr. van Loomis is the novels magician and ruler; Charis, his literate, island bound daughter, is Miranda; the playwright Valentine is Ferdinand; and the exiled, brutish Mario is