The Ponder Heart [SEP] publisher
The Ponder Heart
The Ponder Heart is a novella written by Eudora Welty and illustrated by Joe Krush, originally published in "The New Yorker" in 1953, and republished by Harcourt Brace in 1954. The plot of "The Ponder Heart" follows Daniel Ponder, a wealthy heir, and is told through the narration of Edna Earle Ponder, Daniel's niece. In 1956, the story was made into a Broadway play by Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov. Una Merkel won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a
(1954) to words by Winifred May.
By the mid-1920s the demand for ballads and other traditional types of song was in decline, and Coates's output dropped accordingly. The violist and music scholar Michael Ponder writes that Coates, who was principally interested in writing orchestral music, found writing songs limiting and did so chiefly to fulfil his contract with his publisher. Nevertheless, Ponder considers that some of Coates's later songs show him at his finest. He praises "Because I miss you so" and "The Young Lover