 From the childhood of a little Swedish girl in a small town in Colorado to the triumphal emergence of a Wagnerian star, Willa Cather tells the story of Thea Kronborg in The Song of the Lark. It is the story of the woman as well as the artist, of the human desire for love and understanding and companionship as well as the creative drive that can be filled only by putting such needs aside. Cather paints a brilliant portrait of Thea, setting her against the background of a family that doesn't understand what she must do, of the desert whose vivid clarity shapes her ideal of beauty, of the two men who love her and understand that a lark must fly and pour forth her heart in song but must also have a world to listen, a world to which she can return and rest.
Summary taken from The Song of the Lark. Houghton Mifflin: Boston, 1943.
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