Walter de la Mare by Kajita, Yui; Leighton, Angela; Nickerson, A. J.;

Critical Appraisals

Series: Liverpool English Texts and Studies; 95;

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Publisher Liverpool University Press
Date of Publication 1 August 2025

ISBN 9781836244981
Binding Paperback
No. of pages376 pages
Size 234x156 mm
Weight 560 g
Language English
Illustrations 4 Illustrations, black & white; 3 Illustrations, color

Long description:

This book aims to put Walter de la Mare back on the literary map. A writer beloved by
many, he has nevertheless remained on the sidelines of literary history. Walter de la Mare: Critical Appraisals promises to restore his reputation as one of the most memorably haunting of
poets, as well as a peculiarly unnerving writer of ghost stories. A collection of varied, wide-ranging essays on de la Mare’s poetry, stories, novels, reviews and lectures, it puts his work beside that of many of his famous contemporaries, including Thomas Hardy, Robert Frost, W. H. Auden, T. S. Eliot and Katherine Mansfield. It also contains an invaluable survey of his archive, much of it unpublished, and a number of newly commissioned poems reflecting on his legacy. This multifaceted volume will be of interest to students working on twentieth-century poetry, the short story, the nature and limits of modernism and British intellectual history, as well as on de la Mare himself.

List of contributors: Catherine
Charlwood, Guy Cuthbertson, Peter Davidson, Giles de la Mare, Andrew Doyle, Suzannah
V. Evans, Adam Guy, Robin Holloway, Yui Kajita, Zaffar Kunial, Gregory
Leadbetter, Angela Leighton, Erica McAlpine, Jenny McDonnell, Will May, Andrew
Motion, Paul Muldoon, A. J. Nickerson, Seamus Perry, Adrian Poole, Camille
Ralphs, Vidyan Ravinthiran, Peter Scupham, A. E. Stallings, Mark Valentine, Rory
Waterman, Anne Welsh, David Wheatley, Rowan Williams, William Wootten.

‘Among the chapters specifically focused upon de la Mare, Angela Leighton’s on the “riddling” nature of his work, and Mark Valentine on the “ghostliness” of the writing are especially rewarding. The chapter by Yui Kajita on de la Mare and Hardy pays scrupulous attention to a writer whose prose and poetry would loom large in the imagination of the Georgians and the Dymock group… this extensive critical and biographical reconsideration of Walter de la Mare will help to revive radically our understanding of the aesthetic and thematic influence he exerted at this crucial time.’ Roger Ebbatson, Journal of the Friends of the Dymock Poets