4.
M. D. Herter Norton, trans., Letters to a Young Poet (New York: Norton, 1954), pp. 18–19.
5.
R. Brimley Johnson, ed., The Novels and Letters of Jane Austen, Letters, Part II (New York: Holby, 1906), pp. 339–340.
6.
“Twenty Years of Writing,” Atlantic Monthly, May 1955, pp. 65, 68.
7.
“Teaching Creative Writing,” Atlantic Monthly, May 1955, pp. 69, 70.
8.
Joyce Maynard, “Visiting Ann Beattie,” The New York Times Book Review, May 11, 1980, p. 91.
Angel in the Parlor: The Reading and Writing of Fantasy
1.
Ethan Allen Hitchcock, Remarks upon Alchemy and the Al chemists, indicating a method of Discovering the True Nature of Hermetic Philosophy; and Showing that the Search After the Philosopher’s Stone had Not for Its Object the Discovery of an Agent for the Transmutation of Metals. Being also An Attempt to Rescue from Undeserved Opprobrium the Reputation of a Class of Extraordinary Thinkers in the Past Ages (Boston: Crosby, Nichols, 1857), pp. 171–173.
2.
A. E. Johnson, trans., Perrault’s Fairy Tales (New York: Dover, 1969), pp. 69–70.
3.
Letter to John W. Hilliard, in the New York Times, Supplement, July 14, 1900, p. 466. Reprinted in Robert Wooster Stallman, ed., Stephen Crane, An Omnibus (New York: Knopf, 1952), p. xxix.
The Well-tempered Falsehood: The Art of Storytelling
1.
Lore Segal, trans., “The Master Thief,” in The Juniper Tree and Other Tales from Grimm, vol. I (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973), p. 113.
2.
Segal, “The Juniper Tree,” vol 2, p. 314.
3.
Segal, “The Juniper Tree,” vol 2, pp. 314–315.
4.
Avrahm Yarmolinski, ed., The Portable Chekhov (New York: Viking, 1973), pp. 355–356.
5.
David M. Andersen, “Isaac Bashevis Singer: Conversations in California,” Modern Fiction Studies, vol 16, 1970, p. 436.
6.
Passions and Other Stories (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1975), p. 296.
The Spinning Room: Symbols and Storytellers
1.
“‘Alice’ on the Stage,” in Stuart Dodgson Collingwood, ed., The Lewis Carroll Picture Book (London: Unwin, 1899), p. 165.
2.
Derek Hudson, Lewis Carroll (London: Constable, 1954), p. 128.
3.
Collingwood, The Lewis Carroll Picture Book, pp. 166–167.
4.
Hudson, Lewis Carroll, p. 173.
5.
John Pudney, Lewis Carroll and His World (New York: Scribner’s, 1976), p. 76.
6.
Gustav Janouch, Conversations with Kafka, Notes and Reminiscences (New York: Praeger, 1953), p. 88.
7.
Pudney, Lewis Carroll and His World, pp. 18–19.
8.
Peter Milward, “C. S. Lewis on Allegory,” in The Rising Generation, ed. J. J. Smith (New York: Macmillan), p. 20.
9.
The anecdote is given by Curtis Cate in Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (New York: Putnam’s, 1970), p. 461. The quotation from the notebooks is found on p. 463.
10.
The Story of my Life (New York: Hurd and Houghton; Cambridge: Riverside, 1876), p. 8.
11.
“The Blue Light,” in The Complete Grimm’s Fairy Tales, intro. Padriac Colum, comment. Joseph Campbell (New York: Pantheon, 1972), p. 530.
12.
“The Tinder-Box,” Svend Larsen, ed., R.P. Keigwin, trans., Hans Christian Andersen, Fairy Tales (New York: Scribner’s, 1950), pp. 35–36, 40–41.
13.
Larsen, Hans Christian Andersen, Fairy Tales, pp. 40–41.
14.
Janouch, Conversations with Kafka, p. 59.
15.
The following is retold from “The Enchanted Pig,” in Andrew Lang, ed., The Red Fairy Book (New York: Random, 1960), pp. 145ff.
16.
Elias Bredsdorff, Hans Christian Andersen (London: Phaidon, 1975), P.358.
The Game and the Garden: The Lively Art of Nonsense
1.
Edward Guiliano, ed., The Complete Illustrated Works of Lewis Carroll (New York: Avenel, 1982), p. 136.
2.
Patricia Healy Evans, Rimbles: A Book of Children’s Classic Games, Rhymes, Songs and Sayings (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1961), pp. 55, 75.
3.
Ralph J. Mills, Jr., ed., On the Poet and His Craft: Selected Prose (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1965), p. 41.
4.
“Mother Geese,” New York Times Book Review, November 14, 1971, p. 8.
5.
Iona and Peter Opie, eds., The Oxford Nursery Rhyme Book (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1967), p. 24.
6.
Opie, The Oxford Nursery Rhyme Book, p. 174.
7.
See Susan Stewart, Nonsense, Aspects of Intertextuality in Folklore and Literature (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979) and Elizabeth Sewell, The Field of Nonsense (London: Chatto and Windus, 1952).
8.
David Erdman, ed., The Poetry and Prose of William Blake (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1970), p. 36.
9.
Erdman, The Poetry and Prose of William Blake, p. 39.
10.
Constance Strachey, ed., Letters of Edward Lear to Chichester Fortescue, Lord Carlingford, and Frances, Countess Waldegrave (New York: Duffield, 1907), pp. 219, 222.
11.
Strachey, Letters of Edward Lear, p. 289.
12.
Roger Lancelyn Green, Lewis Carroll (London: The Bodley Head, 1960), pp. 29–30.
13.
Green, Lewis Carroll, p. 51.
14.
Thomas Byrom, Nonsense and Wonder, The Poems and Cartoons of Edward Lear (New York: Dutton, 1977), p. 35.
15.
Strachey, Letters of Edward Lear, p. xlvi.
16.
Strachey, Letters of Edward Lear, pp. 58–59, 267.
17.
Edward Lear, Nonsense Books (Boston: Little, Brown, 1888), PP. 355, 356–357.
18.
Lear, Nonsense Books, p. 137.
19.
Guiliano, The Complete Illustrated Works of Lewis Carroll, pp. 95–96.
20.
Guiliano, The Complete Illustrated Works of Lewis Carroll, p. 181.
21.
Guiliano, The Complete Illustrated Works of Lewis Carroll, p. 143.
22.
Lear, Nonsense Books, pp. 107–108.
23.
Guiliano, The Complete Illustrated Works of Lewis Carroll, pp. 61, 62.
24.
Guiliano, The Complete Illustrated Works of Lewis Carroll, p. 62.
25.
“Peter Coddle’s Narrative,” Peter Coddle’s Trip (Springfield, Mass.: Bradley, 1970), p. 5.
26.
Guiliano, The Complete Illustrated Works of Lewis Carroll, p. 143.
27.
Lear, Nonsense Books, pp. 313, 321.
28.
Ralph Steele Boggs and Mary Gould Davis, “The Shepherd Who Laughed Last,” in Signals, ed. Alma Whitney (New York: Macmillan, 1975), pp. 25–28. Reprinted from Boggs and Davis, Three Golden Oranges and Other Spanish Folk Tales. © 1936 by David McKay Company, Inc. for Longmans, Green & Co. Copyright renewed 1964 by R. S. Boggs and P. R. Davis.
29.
Valerie Eaton Griffith, A Stroke in the Family (New York: Delacorte, 1970), p. 87.
30.
See Jeffrey Stern, “Lewis Carroll the Surrealist,” in Lewis Carroll: A Celebration, ed. Edward Guiliano (New York: Potter, 1982), p. 133. See also André Breton, “Limits Not Frontiers of Surrealism,” in Surrealism, ed. Herbert Read (London: Faber and Faber, 1937): “With Swift and Lewis Carrol [sic], the English reader is more fitted than anyone to appreciate the resources of that humour which … hovers
over the origins of Surrealism …” (p. 103).
31.
Green, Lewis Carroll, p. 50.
32.
Breton, André, Manifestoes of Surrealism, trans. Richard Seaver and Helen R. Lane (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1969), p. 14.
33.
Breton, Manifestoes of Surrealism, pp. 29–30.
34.
Leaping Poetry: An Idea With Poems and Translations (Boston: Beacon, 1975), p. 4.
35.
Because It Is (New York: New Directions, 1960), p. 11.
36.
James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (New York: Viking, 1957), p. 13.
The Rutabaga Lamp: The Reading and Writing of Fairy Tales
1.
Iona and Peter Opie, eds., The Oxford Nursery Rhyme Book (London: Oxford University Press, 1967), p. 152.
2.
Opie, The Oxford Nursery Rhyme Book, p. 153.
3.
Tree and Leaf (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965), p. 10.
4.
Leslie Fiedler, “Introduction,” in Beyond the Looking Glass, ed. Jonathan Cott (New York: Stonehall, 1973), p. xiii.
5.
Madame de Sévigné, August 6, 1677, Correspondance, Vol. II (juillet 1675—septembre 1680). Texte établi, présenté et annoté par Roger Duchêne (Paris: Editions Gallimard, 1974), p. 513.
6.
Tolkien, Tree and Leaf, p. 45.
7.
“A Christmas Tree,” in Christmas Stories from “Household Words” and “All the Year Round” (London: Chapman & Hall and Henry Frowde, n.d.), p. 15.
8.
“Preface,” The Lilac Fairy Book (New York: Dover, 1968), p. viii.
9.
“Preface to ‘The Spoils of Poynton,’” in The Art of the Novel: Critical Prefaces by Henry James, intro. Richard P. Blackmur (New York: Scribners, 1934), p. 119.
10.
Tolkien, Tree and Leaf, p. 5.
11.
A Likely Story (Dublin: Doleman, 1967), p. 25.
12.
Kingdoms of Elfin (New York: Viking, 1977), p. 1.
13.
Tolkien, Tree and Leaf, pp. 48–49.
14.
The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, vol. 21 (London: Smith, Elder, 1879), pp. 297–298.
15.
The Practical Princess and Other Liberating Fairy Tales (New York: Scholastic, 1978), pp. 2, 3.
16.
George Cruikshank’s Fairy Library (London: Bell, [1877]), p. 27.
17.
“Frauds on the Fairies,” in Plays, Poems and Miscellaneous (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1894), p. 488.
18.
Transformations (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1971), pp. 54–55
19.
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (London: Faber & Faber, 1954), p. 164.
20.
Henry James, “The Art of Fiction,” in The Portable Henry James, ed. Morton Dauwen Zabel (New York: Viking, 1975), p. 399.
21.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (London: Chapman & Hall and Henry Frowde, n.d.), p. 479.
22.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, p. 483.
23.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, p. 485.
24.
Michael Slater, ed., The Christmas Books, vol. 1 (Middlesex, England: Penguin, 1975), p. 47.
25.
Slater, The Christmas Books, p. 24.
“Who Invented Water?”: Magic, Craft, and the
Making of Children’s Books
1.
“Today’s Wonder-World Needs Alice,” in Robert Phillips, Aspects of Alice (London: Gollancz, 1972), p. 11.
2.
A Collection of Essays (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday/Anchor, 1953), p. 169.
3.
J. H. G. Grattan and Charles Singer, eds., Anglo-Saxon Magic and Medicine (London: Oxford University Press, 1952), p. 193.
4.
Erroll LeCain, ed. and illus., The White Cat (Scarsdale, N.Y.: Bradbury, 1975), n.p.
5.
Phillips, Aspects of Alice, p. 4.
6.
Leslie Lindner, History of the Writings of Beatrix Potter (London: Warne, 1971), p. 110.
7.
Lindner, History of the Writings of Beatrix Potter, pp. 7–8.
8.
Lindner, History of the Writings of Beatrix Potter, p. xxv.
9.
Christopher Robin Milne, The Enchanted Places (New York: Dutton, 1975), p. 13.
10.
Nat Hentoff, “Profiles: Among the Wild Things,” The New Yorker, January 22, 1966, pp. 42–44.
11.
P. L. Travers, Mary Poppins (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1962), p. 29.
12.
Travers, Mary Poppins, p. 103.
13.
P. L. Travers, Mary Poppins Opens the Door (New York Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1943), p. 148.
14.
Edward Guiliano, ed., The Complete Illustrated Works of Lewis Carroll (New York: Avenel, 1982) pp. 5–6.
15.
London: Ernest Benn Ltd., 1902. p. 1.
16.
The Water Babies (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1910), p. 24.
About the Author
Nancy Willard grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She has written two novels, seven books of stories and essays, and twelve books of poetry, including The Sea at Truro (2012). A winner of the Devins Memorial Award, she has received NEA grants in both fiction and poetry. Her book Water Walker was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and she won the Newbery Medal for A Visit to William Blake’s Inn. Willard is an emeritus professor at Vassar College.
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