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The Song of the Lark

Houghton Mifflin Co., 1915

"How deep they lay, these second persons, and how little one knew about them, except to guard them fiercely."
Cover of first edition of The Song of the Lark

Editions

First Edition

Published by Houghton Mifflin Co. on October 2, 1915.

First English Edition

Published by John Murray in March 1916.

Autograph Edition

Published by Houghton Mifflin Co. in 1937.

Second English Edition

Published by Cassell and Company in 1938.

Scholarly Edition

Published by University of Nebraska Press in 2012. Historical Essay and Explanatory Notes by Ann Moseley. Textual Essay and Editing by Kari A. Ronning.

Related material available on the Willa Cather Archive

Scholarship

"Thea's "Indian Play" in The Song of the Lark
By Sarah Clere, Cather Studies Volume 9
Advertising Cather during the Transition Years (1914-1922)
By Erika Hamilton, Cather Studies Volume 7
Wagner, Place, and the Growth of Pessimism in the Fiction of Willa Cather
By Philip Kennicott, Cather Studies Volume 5
Willa Cather: The Plow and the Pen
By Joseph W. Meeker, Cather Studies Volume 5
The Creative Ecology of Walnut Canyon: From the Sinagua to Thea Kronborg
By Ann Moseley, Cather Studies Volume 5
Song of the Lark to Air on PBS May 2 and 6
By Andrew Jewell, The Mower's Tree: The Newsletter of the Cather Colloquium, Spring 2001
Fine and Folk Art in The Song of the Lark: Cather's Pictorial Sources
By Jean Schwind, Cather Studies Volume 1

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