Walter De la Mare

Williams-Ellis divided her text into five sections according to audience, respectively written For All, For Philosophers, For Missionaries, For Critics, and For Readers. The last section consists of short studies...

One of EWW 's advice books, The Art of Being Alive: Success Through Thought, appeared, to be categorized a month later by Walter de la Mare in the TLS as one more cursory manual...

EW published a volume of short stories entitled Certain People on 21 October 1930 (the same day of the year as two earlier publications). Her final collection of stories, Ghosts, appeared...

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...

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...

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.

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 .

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 .

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...