The Song of the Lark tells the story of Thea Kronborg, from her early childhood in a small town in Colorado to her maturity as an opera star. Archie’s office, right at the beginning of the novel, and in later posts I will have more to say about her descriptions of places, but in this post I will talk about her little digressive portraits. In a previous post I discussed her description of Dr. It’s not her best book, in my opinion-I would rank One of Ours and Lucy Gayheart and A Lost Lady ahead of it-but as I reread it I find more and more to admire. The Song of the Lark was Cather’s third novel, published in 1915, after Alexander’s Bridge and O Pioneers! and before My Antonia. Recently I reread The Song of the Lark, and I thought I would write a few posts about it. She is very good at descriptions and what I call world-building. She is also an excellent composer of plots, where her technique is more evident. As a stylist she has been a big influence on me I have tried to achieve her seemingly effortless clarity, and I’ve come to realize how hard it is to write clearly. Her style is mostly rather understated her use of language rarely calls attention to itself. She’s often considered a mid-Western realist, but that description really doesn’t begin to describe her writing. Willa Cather was born in Virginia in 1873, she grew up in Nebraska, but she lived most of her adult life in New York City, and she died in 1947.
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