Walter De la Mare

Standard Name: De la Mare, Walter

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Literary responses Eleanor Farjeon
D. H. Lawrence thought her a real poet, but criticised her for refusing to fight things out to their last issue. . . . [Y]ou never burn yours to the last fire. . ....
Literary responses Evelyn Underhill
In reviewing Theophanies for the Times Literary Supplement, Walter de la Mare reported that in EU 's attempt to express the ineffable . . . her poems sometimes diffuse into rhapsody or harden (what...
Literary responses Eleanor Farjeon
British Book News announced that this book gives Eleanor Farjeon a permanent place of honour between Stevenson and Walter de la Mare .
British Book News. British Council.
(1952): 122
The Jesuit Father Mangan , who baptised EF into the...
Material Conditions of Writing Mary Stewart
It was only after her marriage and subsequent ectopic pregnancy that MS began seriously to consider writing novels. In 1948 she began work on a children's story, The Enchanted Journey, which was inspired by...
Occupation Naomi Royde-Smith
She covered drama criticism for two years, but remained literary editor for a decade.
Eliot, T. S. The Letters of T.S. Eliot. Editor Eliot, Valerie, Faber and Faber, 1988.
1: 149n1
Mary Agnes Hamilton wrote later: she was a wonderful editor, whose discoveries were endless.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape, 1944.
137
Her list of...
Occupation Anne Ridler
AR worked at Faber & Faber as secretary and copy-editor, first for Richard de la Mare and from late 1936 for T. S. Eliot . Her duties included helping Eliot select poetry for The Criterion...
Occupation Eleanor Farjeon
In 1939, EF became a member of the executive committee of the PEN Club . She remained on the committee for ten years, during which its chief work was helping with the escape and establishment...
politics Bryher
H. D. , Edith Sitwell , Vita Sackville-West , Dorothy Wellesley , T. S. Eliot , and Walter de la Mare were among the readers at this event, which also received royal patronage.
Collecott, Diana. H.D. and Sapphic Modernism, 1910-1950. Cambridge University Press, 1999, http://Rutherford HSS.
235 and n45
Publishing Mary Webb
MW 's unfinished, final fiction, the historical novel, Armour Wherein He Trusted, was posthumously published one year after her death, with some short pieces.
The Bodleian Library holds a copy of this edition (with...
Publishing Anne Ridler
AR 's first volume published with Faber & Faber benefited from the patronage of her former bosses there. T. S. Eliot recommended its publication,
Ridler, Anne. “Working for T.S. Eliot: A Personal Reminiscence”. Poetry Review, Vol.
73
, No. 1, 1983, pp. 46-9.
49
and the first edition appeared on expensive hand-made paper, which...
Publishing Storm Jameson
SJ contributed three essays to the English Review: one on Walter de la Mare and two others on the United States.
Birkett, Jennifer. Margaret Storm Jameson: A Life. Oxford University Press, 2009.
71n56
Jameson, Storm. Journey from the North. Harper and Row, 1970.
80, 165
Reception Lady Margaret Sackville
Dr Georgina Somerville in The Harp Aeolian, 1953 (a tiny-format book, whose title suggests the poet as passive recipient of divine inspiration, and whose contents are not noted in the MLA Bibliography), offers...
Reception Dorothy Wellesley
Yeats found and valued in DW 's work both descriptive genius
qtd. in
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
and passionate precision.
qtd. in
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Sackville-West 's considered judgement was that Wellesley was undisciplined, and that the philosophic freight which Yeats admired in her work...
Reception Rose Macaulay
To celebrate the appearance of her collection, RM threw a party at her flat to which she ambitiously invited Walter de la Mare . He attended, as did her publisher for this book, Frank Sidgwick
Reception Charlotte Mew
CM was awarded a Civil List pension of £75 a year on the recommendation of John Masefield , Thomas Hardy , and Walter de la Mare .
Monro, Alida, and Charlotte Mew. “Charlotte Mew—A Memoir”. Collected Poems of Charlotte Mew, Gerald Duckworth, 1953, p. vii - xx.
xv
Stanford, Donald E., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 19. Gale Research, 1983.
311

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