阿佛列·愛德嘉·柯伯德

阿佛列·愛德嘉·柯伯德（，）是一位英國作家、詩人。

生平
阿佛列·愛德嘉·柯伯德出生於福克斯通（Folkestone），雙親是裁縫和女傭。柯伯德在貧困的情況下長大，後來將他的童年描述為“驚人的貧窮”，而弗兰克·奥康纳（Frank O'Connor）將柯伯德的童年描繪成“殘酷”"Coppard, Alfred Edgar"
by Thomas Moult and Clare Hansen. Dictionary of National Biography,Volume 13, edited
by H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison.  Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2004.   (pp. 360-61).。

在1920年代初，他認識理查德·休斯（Richard Hughes）Richard Perceval Graves, Richard Hughes (1994), p. 52.和埃德蓋爾·里克斯（Edgell Rickword）等人。

阿佛列·愛德嘉·柯伯德是獨立工黨的成員，小說受到托馬斯·哈代的影響，最初的作品比貝茨（Herbert Ernest Bates）更受歡迎"Coppard, A(lfred) E(dgar)" by Brian Stableford in David Pringle, St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost & Gothic Writers. London : St. James Press, 1998,  (pp. 147-8).。

著作

故事集
 Adam & Eve & Pinch Me (1921)
 Clorinda Walks in Heaven (1922)
 The Black Dog and Other Stories (1923)
 Fishmonger's Fiddle: Tales (1925)
 The Field of Mustard (1926)
 Silver Circus (1928)
 Count Stefan (1928)
 The Higgler (1930)
 Nixey's Harlequin (1931)
 Fares Please! (1931)
 Crotty Shinkwin and The Beauty Spot (1932)
 Dunky Fitlow (1933)
 Ring the Bells of Heaven (1933)
 Emergency Exit (1934)
 Pink Furniture (1935)
 Polly Oliver (1935)
 Ninepenny Flute (1937)
 You Never Know, Do You? (1939)
 Ugly Anna (1944)
 Fearful Pleasures (1946)
 Selected Tales (1946)
 The Dark Eyed Lady – Fourteen Tales (1947)
 Collected Tales (1948)
 Lucy in Her Pink Coat (1954)
 Selected Stories (1972)
 The Collected Tales of A. E. Coppard (1976)
 The Higgler and Other Stories (1991)
 The Man from the Caravan and Other Stories (1999)
 Father Raven and Other Tales (2006)
 Weep not my wanton : selected short stories (2013)

詩集
 Hips and Haws (1922)
 Yokohoma Garland & Other Poems (1926)
 Pelaga and Other Poems (1926)
 The Collected Poems of A. E. Coppard (1928)
 Cherry Ripe: Poems (1935)
 Simple Day: Selected Poems (1978)

詩歌故事
 The Hundredth Story of A. E. Coppard (1930)
 Cheefoo  (1932) 
 Good Samaritans (1934)
 These Hopes of Heaven (1934)
 Tapster's Tapestry :A Tale (1938) 

非小說
 Rummy: that noble game expounded in prose, poetry, diagram and engraving (1932) 

編輯
 Songs from Robert Burns. Selected by A. E. Coppard, with wood engravings by Mabel M. Annesley (1925)

Contributor
 Consequences, a complete story in the manner of the old parlour game, in nine chapters, each by a different author (1932)
 The Fairies Return, or New Tales for Old (1934)

自傳
 It's Me, O Lord! (1957)

延伸閱讀
 Fabes, Gilbert H., The First Editions of A. E. Coppard, A. P. Herbert and Charles Morgan, 1933 London: Myers.
 Saul, George Brandon, A.E. Coppard: His Life and Poetry,1932, University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D. dissertation.
 Schwartz, Jacob with foreword and notes by A. E. Coppard, A Bibliography of A. E. Coppard - The Writings of Alfred Edgar Coppard, 1931.
 Jehin, A. Remarks on the Style of A.E. Coppard. Buenos Aires, 1944.

參考資料


註釋

外部連結



 AE Coppard at the Supernatural Fiction Database



Category:福克斯通人
Category:英国奇幻小说家
Category:英國恐怖小說家
Category:英国短篇小说家