Walter de la Mare

Yui Kajita is a scholar of nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, a literary translator and an illustrator. Angela Leighton is Senior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge. A. J. Nickerson is Katherine Jex-Blake Research Fellow and College Lecturer at Girton College, Cambridge.

• IntroductionPART I: LITERARY NETWORKSThe Secret Language of Tapping: Walter de la Mare and Thomas HardyYui Kajita‘The close, the curious, the deep’: Walter de la Mare and Henry JamesAdrian PooleCorresponding Listeners: Walter de la Mare and Robert FrostCatherine CharlwoodSharing the Inkpot: Walter de la Mare and Forrest ReidAndrew Doyle‘That remoter, changeless England’: Walter de la Mare and Edward ThomasGuy CuthbertsonExploring the Empty House: Walter de la Mare and Katherine MansfieldJenny McDonnellVisible Swans: Walter de la Mare and T. S. EliotA. J. NickersonGhosts: Walter de la Mare and Rex WhistlerPeter Davidson‘O where are you going?’: Walter de la Mare and W. H. Auden Seamus PerryPART II: CRITICAL READINGSRiddling de la MareAngela LeightonWalter de la Mare, Nonsense, and AnimalsWill MayWalter de la Mare and the Modern Ghost StoryMark ValentineWalter de la Mare, W. H. Davies, and Georgian PoetryRory WatermanLiterary Impressionism in Walter de la Mare’s Reviews: Henry James, Joseph Conrad, and Dorothy RichardsonAdam GuyThe Critical Reception of Walter de la Mare and the Legacy of I. A. RichardsWilliam WoottenPART III: ARTISTIC RESPONSESIn the SilenceAndrew MotionA ReturnDavid WheatleyIsledZaffar KunialThe TravellersVidyan RavinthiranWalter de la Mare: A LandscapePeter ScuphamPeacock PieA. E. StallingsFare Well, cont.Camille RalphsSome Words Between ThemErica McAlpineThe WreckSuzannah V. EvansSyllablingsGregory LeadbetterWhen the ItaliansPaul MuldoonThe Lost, the Haunted, and the Holy: De la Mare and the OtherworldlyRowan WilliamsSetting Walter de la Mare to MusicRobin HollowayPART IV: ARCHIVESWalter de la Mare’s Working LibraryAnne WelshWalter de la Mare ArchivesGiles de la Mare

‘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