Tolkien and... A. E. Coppard

[Extollager]

On the far right edge there's our Professor -- chatting with a young lady, drink in hand.

Tolkien and A.E. Coppard

I have long wondered whether Tolkien had ever read anything by A.E. Coppard. In the rear of my anthology Tales Before Tolkien (2003), I i...

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Does anyone here read A. E. Coppard? I've never had the impression that he was an author I'd like.

 

[BAYLOR]

I never read his story in in Tales before Tolkien but m online found a story by him title. The Higgler I read the first few pages of it, seems interesting.