Walter De la Mare

Several poems in A Candle Ahead invoke ME 's teachers: Milton , Thomas Traherne , Walter de la Mare , and Thomas Hardy , the theme of whose The Well-Beloved is that of her closing...

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...

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...

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 .

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...

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...

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 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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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. . ....