Walter De la Mare

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 .

EBCJ had many friends among the Bloomsbury group. Virginia Woolf hovered between liking and disliking, feeling she could never become intimate with Topsy but welcoming the spruce shining mind. She was close...

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...

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. . ....

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...

British Book News announced that this book gives Eleanor Farjeon a permanent place of honour between Stevenson and Walter de la Mare . The Jesuit Father Mangan , who baptised EF into the...

It was reviewed for the Times Literary Supplement by Walter de la Mare , who wrote appreciatively of the faint arresting strangeness, the sense of sinister events impending, which is present from the opening sentence...

The Times Literary Supplement continued to employ the same reviewers for MBL . De la Mare expressed a certain disappointment with Jane Oglander on 16 March 1911; Harold Child welcomed the turn back from murder...

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...

As soon as The Lodger began to appear as a serial it brought MBL fanmail, both from lodging-house-keepers and from literary men. In book form, she says, by contrast, it did not receive a single...

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...

Edward Thomas , reviewing The Two Blind Countries for The Bookman, compared her poetry to de la Mare 's. Most of her poems, he said are decidedly more intellectual and less sensuous than...

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.

The volume was much praised. The Athenæum called RMone of the most interesting of contemporary poets and a very accomplished metrist. A few years later, however, Humbert Wolfe wrote of her poetry that...

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