Wings Against the Sky (review of The Collected Stories of Caroline Gordon, introduction by Robert Penn Warren)

WINGS AGAINST THE SKY

The mood of Caroline Gordon’s short stories is just this side of elegiac. Here is not a lament for the dead, but rather an evocation of a world that is passing away, a celebration of things enjoyed in every particular precisely because they will not come again. It is not just the inevitability but the propriety of time’s passage that Miss Gordon’s narratives