Walter De la Mare

GBS published another book of reminiscences, Another Part of the Forest, written in 1940 on an idea expressed by Walter De la Mare : Look your last on all things lovely, every hour.

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...

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...

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...

By the time AU 's mentor, Professor Alexander, died (deeply upset about Hitler's rule in Germany), she had met another father-figure and important friend, the poet Walter de la Mare . She also developed friendships...

Secret Places included a perceptive essay on Walter de la Mare .

Friends from HW 's time at Somerville included Maude Clarke , whom she had known as a child and whose Oxford position had been one of the incentives to go there, and archaelogist Helen Lorimer

The book evoked a chorus of praise. Walter de la Mare wrote to Otto Kyllmann: She writes about poetry absolutely unknown to me, in a fashion that is in itself poetry.Kyllmann wrote to HW

This book too brought many letters of praise: from Rose Macaulay , Æ , Walter de la Mare , and Stanley Baldwin .

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

In London, despite the shyness that made literary life difficult for her, MW became friends with May Sinclair , Robert and Sylvia Lynd , Rebecca West , novelist and critic Edwin Pugh , and Lady Cynthia Asquith

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.

MW wrote war poetry. The Lad Out There (whose title perhaps remembers Housman ) catches the tone of poems by women left behind and gives it a maternal flavour: So young he is, so dear...

This friendship led to others for DW , for on Yeats's later visits she invited people to meet him, including Lord David Cecil , Sir William Rothenstein , Rex Whistler , H. A. L. Fisher

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...