Walter De la Mare

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

The Farmer's Bride is the most frequently anthologized of Mew's works. However, Walter de la Mare advised against its inclusion in Edward Marsh 's 1917 collection of Georgian Poetry, criticising its rhythmical imprecision....

As a reviewer, AM dealt with writing by Samuel Johnson , Christina Rossetti , George Eliot , Emily Brontë , Dickens , Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning , Jean Ingelow , Charles Williams ,...

AM later said she was pleased with The First Snow and Maternity because she found them two of her most undecorated, or simple, poems. She wrote to her husband that more undecorated, henceforth, my...

Correspondents represented in the volume include Freya Stark , as well as Bernard Shaw , Siegfried Sassoon , and Walter de la Mare . This volume was adapted for television by the BBC in 1988, without crediting VM .

SM published another book of poetry, entitled Annotations: the title is taken from Walter de la Mare , in a line that appears on the title-page.

RP knew T. S. Eliot well enough to enjoy a courtly encounter with him at a bus stop, but she felt his great innovations had not necessarily been a good thing for English poetry, and...

In the same year she and Graves jointly issued A Pamphlet Against Anthologies, which attacks the anthology culture, and several specific much-anthologized poems by such respected or popular names as W. B. Yeats ,...

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 also sat on the committee which, under Alice Mary Smyth (later Hadfield) , was at work compiling the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. While working at Faber & Faber , AR was often...

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...

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...

The poet Walter de la Mare was in love with NRS for a period of some years from 1911: some sources refer to them as lovers. His biographer suggests that she was able to give...

In another selection of poetry some years later, A Private Anthology, 1924, NRS offered a prefatory Apology on her critical opinions and personal experience as a poetry reader. She divided the poems among twelve...

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...