A Breath of Air Folk & Fairy Read with absorption in the

Read with absorption in the pages of this philosopher and you find a primordial image spontaneously arising in the mind: the image of a winding path

Lockerd is Professor of English at Grand Valley State University

and God” and “Aristotle

Rudolf Allers asserts that such arguments ultimately obscure the fundamental issue

and sustain the Catholic faith in the hearts of the English people

A Breath of Air Folk & Fairy Read with absorption in theWe are such stuff as dreams are made on: and our little life is rounded with a sleep, cries Prospero in Shakespeares The Tempestfrom which play Rumer Godden took the story of this novel, A Breath of Air. In cast of character and plot structure, parallels are certainly presentMr. van Loomis is the novels magician and ruler; Charis, his literate, island bound daughter, is Miranda; the playwright Valentine is Ferdinand; and the exiled, brutish Mario is