Walter de la Mare

This book aims to put Walter de la Mare back on the literary map. A writer beloved bymany, 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 ofpoets, 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 It also contains an invaluable survey of his archive, much of it unpublished, and a number of newly commissioned poems reflecting on his legacy.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: CatherineCharlwood, Guy Cuthbertson, Peter Davidson, Giles de la Mare, Andrew Doyle, SuzannahV. Evans, Adam Guy, Robin Holloway, Yui Kajita, Zaffar Kunial, GregoryLeadbetter, Angela Leighton, Erica McAlpine, Jenny McDonnell, Will May, AndrewMotion, Paul Muldoon, A. J. Nickerson, Seamus Perry, Adrian Poole, CamilleRalphs, Vidyan Ravinthiran, Peter Scupham, A. E. Stallings, Mark Valentine, RoryWaterman, Anne Welsh, David Wheatley, Rowan Williams, William Wootten.