"Foreword."
Bates writes of his optimism in the 1930s, shared by Elizabeth Bowen, for the future of the short story and of factors leading instead to a decline in new story writers. He attributes this to a more general "famine in writers of imagination," and distinguishes a "decade of writers too greatly given to genuflection, communism and general vituperation" with writers for whom "the short story is close to poetry -- indeed, at its best, is poetry." In Pick of To-day's Short Stories 7 (Edited by John Pudney, London: Putnam, 1956, pp. 9-13).
ID:
c164
Title:
"Foreword."
Genre:
Essay
Page Count:
5
Word Count:
ca. 1200
Year of Publication:
1956
Topic:
Short Story
Document Type:
Full-text Online
Introductions, Forewords, Prefaces
Literary Criticism
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