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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ,...

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...

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.

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...