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Song of the Lark, The

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From: The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature
Date: 19860101
Author:James D. Hart

Song of the Lark, The, novel by Willa Cather , published in 1915.

Thea Kronborg, daughter of a Swedish minister in Colorado, during her growth to adolescence develops an obsessive interest in music. Her ability on the piano is encouraged by her eccentric German music teacher, Professor Wunsch, and by Dr. Howard Archie, a kindly, educated physician whose unfortunate marriage taints his life. Set apart from the townspeople by her talents and ardent nature, she prefers such friends as “Spanish Johnny” Tellamantez and the railroad worker Ray Kennedy, who falls in love with ...

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