Christopher La Farge
Each to the Other is a novel in verse. Its main concern is to demonstrate the factors that may contribute to a deeply successful marriage. The form is an episodic autobriography of Tmoas Cotrell. The incidents of his life until marriage have been calculated to dispose him strongly against marriage; but, falling completely in love with Judith Carpenter (whose observation of married life has, oppositely, been happy), he marries her. The subsequent episodes deal with their married career over fifteen years, from many angle; and the poem concludes after Tom and Judith have achieved the strength of unity inherent in a marriage successful because they have made it so. The incidents, illustrated by some thirty characters in seventy-five episodes, range from childhood through day by day experience, and include madness, the war, and murder. The scene is laid in Rhode Island, New York and Europe.
Each to the Other