Walter De la Mare

Standard Name: De la Mare, Walter

Connections

Connections	Author name Sort descending	Excerpt
Textual Features	Lady Cynthia Asquith	Her authors are mostly well-known: Hardy , Barrie , Sir Henry Newbolt , Hilaire Belloc , Hugh Lofting , and Walter de la Mare , apart from two stories by herself. Beauman, Nicola. Cynthia Asquith. Hamish Hamilton. 286 Colles, Hester Janet. “A Gallery of Children”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1245, p. 804. 804 Sales in...
Textual Production	Lady Cynthia Asquith	Her letters to D. H. Lawrence are in the Harry Ransom Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin and her letters to Walter de la Mare in the Bodleian Library . Most of...
Literary responses	Arnold Bennett	This novel received immediate praise in the press, though sales of the small print-run took a long time to pick up. Enthusiastic reviewers included such different writers as Walter de la Mare (in the Times...
Anthologization	Enid Blyton	It was perhaps EB 's high point as a poet when she had five pieces included in an anthology that also featured work by John Masefield , Walter de la Mare , and Rudyard Kipling . Stoney, Barbara. Enid Blyton. Hodder and Stoughton. 49
Literary responses	Marjorie Bowen	MB was admired in her own day by others who prided themselves on the popular touch in their writing: Mark Twain , Walter de la Mare , Compton Mackenzie , and Hugh Walpole , who...
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, http://Rutherford HSS. 235 and n45
Textual Production	Angela Carter	She also wrote introductions to works by various writers and artists, including Walter De la Mare , Christina Stead , Gilbert Hernandez , Frida Kahlo , and Charlotte Brontë . Peach, Linden. Angela Carter. St Martin’s Press. 172-3
Intertextuality and Influence	Mary Elizabeth Coleridge	Early in her career, MEC received support from established writers. When she became an established writer herself, other authors turned to her for advice, among them Kenneth Barnes and Walter de la Mare . Coleridge, Mary Elizabeth. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. The Collected Poems of Mary Coleridge, edited by Theresa Whistler, Rupert Hart-Davis, pp. 21-81. 69
Literary responses	Ivy Compton-Burnett	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
Friends, Associates	Frances Cornford	FC also developed friendships, although not close ones, with Walter de la Mare , Eric Gill , Bertrand Russell , Siegfried Sassoon , Ralph and Ursula Vaughan Williams, and Virginia Woolf . Cornford, Hugh et al. “Frances Cornford 1886-1960”. Selected Poems, edited by Jane Dowson and Jane Dowson, Enitharmon Press, p. xxvii - xxxvii. xxxv
Textual Production	Monica Dickens	MD joined forces with Rosemary Sutcliff in 1978 to edit a poetry anthology for young people, entitled Is Anyone There? (from the opening line of Walter de la Mare 's well-known The Traveller). Three...
Reception	Margiad Evans	Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan finds these poems uneven, and regrets the influence on them of W. H. Hudson and Walter De la Mare . Lloyd-Morgan, Ceridwen. Margiad Evans. Seren. 95
Intertextuality and Influence	Margiad Evans	Several poems in A Candle Ahead invoke ME 's teachers: Milton , Thomas Traherne , Walter de la Mare , and Thomas Hardy , the theme of whose The Well-Beloved is that of her closing...
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...
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. . ....

Timeline

November 1925

Actress Ellen Terry gave her final stage performance in Walter de la Mare 's Crossings at the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith near London.

After February 1932

An appeal of Count Potocki of Montalk 's case was heard; and although he was not cleared, an advance in obscene libel cases was made.

Texts

De la Mare, Walter. “Fiction. ‘An Old Wives’ Tale’”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 357, p. 403.

De la Mare, Walter. “Jane Oglander”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 479, p. 110.

De la Mare, Walter. “Miss Underhill’s Poems”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 770, p. 499.

De la Mare, Walter. “Poems in War-Time”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 702, p. 217.

De la Mare, Walter. “The Lodger”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 608, p. 364.

De la Mare, Walter. “When No Man Pursueth”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 423, p. 56.