A. E. Coppard

Alfred Edgar Coppard (January 4 1878 ? January 13 1957) was an English writer, noted for his influence on the short story form, and poet. He was born in Folkestone, and had little formal education.

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January 4 - 1878 - January 13 - 1957 - Short story - Folkestone

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In the early 1920s, and still unpublished, he was in Oxford and a leading light of a literary group, the New Elizabethans, who met in a pub to read Elizabethan drama. The meetings were sometimes attended by W. B. Yeats. At this period he met Richard Hughes and Edgell Rickword, amongst others.

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1920s - Oxford - Elizabethan drama - W. B. Yeats - Richard Hughes - Edgell Rickword

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