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INTERVIEWER
What would you say was the essence of [Hemingway’s] genius?
COWLEY
A sort of restoration to literature of various primal qualities. There’s almost the quality of a medieval lyric in much of Hemingway’s writing. It’s fresh. If you read Le Morte d’Arthur, the chapter that begins with the month of May at King Arthur’s court, there’s a freshness in it that one finds again in Hemingway. . . . I think he is a lyric writer, more or less. He always had trouble with plots because he wasn’t so much filling out a plot as he was making a journey or progression, day by day.
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