Walter De la Mare

Walter De la Mare said of MW 's essays that only a loving rapture in the thing itself could have found words for an object so minute in terms so precise [and] poetic in effect.

Praised in the Daily Mail and Times Literary Supplement (where the anonymous reviewer was Walter de la Mare ), Dolores was compared to its advantage with works by Ada Leverson and Arnold Bennett . ICB

As soon as The Lodger began to appear as a serial it brought MBL fanmail, both from lodging-house-keepers and from literary men. In book form, she says, by contrast, it did not receive a single...

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...

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...

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...

She covered drama criticism for two years, but remained literary editor for a decade.Mary Agnes Hamilton wrote later: she was a wonderful editor, whose discoveries were endless. Her list of...

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.

SJ contributed three essays to the English Review: one on Walter de la Mare and two others on the United States.

MW 's unfinished, final fiction, the historical novel, Armour Wherein He Trusted, was posthumously published one year after her death, with some short pieces.

AR 's first volume published with Faber & Faber benefited from the patronage of her former bosses there. T. S. Eliot recommended its publication, and the first edition appeared on expensive hand-made paper, which...

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...

CM was awarded a Civil List pension of £75 a year on the recommendation of John Masefield , Thomas Hardy , and Walter de la Mare .

Nineteenth-century anthologists Alexander Dyce and Frederic Rowton chose their selection of Tollet's poems from that of Southey. Mid-century critic Jane Williams thought Tollet lacked the vitalizing spark of genius, even though her correct metre...

Yeats found and valued in DW 's work both descriptive genius and passionate precision.Sackville-West 's considered judgement was that Wellesley was undisciplined, and that the philosophic freight which Yeats admired in her work...