CHAPTER 3 WALTER DE LA MARE’S IDEAL READER
1 Walter de la Mare, ‘Books and Reading’ [II],Saturday Westminster Gazette, 22
February 1919 ,p. 8.
2 ‘The Poet of Spoon River’, unsigned review,Times Literary Supplement, 21
September 1916 ,p. 451.
3 ‘The Quintessential’, unsigned review,Times Literary Supplement, 12 August
1915 ,p. 268.
4 Ezra Pound, ‘Vorticism’,Fortnightly Review, 1 September 1914 , pp. 461 – 71
( 465 ),EPP,I,p. 279.
5 De la Mare, ‘The Quintessential’.
6 Walter de la Mare, ‘The Spirit of Romance’,Saturday Westminster Gazette, 22
October 1910 ,p. 12.
7 Walter de la Mare, ‘Mr. Pound’s Canzoni’,Saturday Westminster Gazette, 19
August 1911 ,p. 12.
8 ‘Life Desiring Life’, unsigned review,Times Literary Supplement, 2 October
1919 ,p. 527.
9 Walter de la Mare, ‘How to Read Contemporary Poetry’,Everyman, 17 May
1919 ,p. 133.
10 ‘Doggerel’, unsigned review,Times Literary Supplement, 21 August 1913 ,p. 341.
11 Letterof August 1918 , cited in Theresa Whistler,Imagination of the Heart
(London: Duckworth, 1993 ), p. 288.
12 Iona and Peter Opie,The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes(Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 1951 ), p. 3.
13 Walter de la Mare, ‘Flowers in Poetry’, repr. inPleasures and Speculations
(London: Faber & Faber, 1940 ), pp. 200 – 32 (p. 231 ). Cf. Thomas’s letter to de
la Mare dated 16 May 1911 , MS.Eng.Lett. 622 , Bodleian Library, Oxford.
14 Walter de la Mare, ‘Magic and Poetry’, TS lecture (n.d. but c. 1910 ), Literary
Papers of Walter de la Mare, Bodleian Library, Oxford [n.p.].
15 Juliet Dusinberre,Alice to the Lighthouse: Children’s Literature and Radical
Experiments in Art(London: Macmillan, 1987 ), p. 22.
16 Edward J. O’Brien, ‘The Younger Bards’,Poetry 6 ( 1915 ), 188 – 96 ; ‘A Review
of Contemporary Art’,Blast 2 ( 1915 ), 38 – 47 (p. 46 ).
17 Text of de la Mare’s ‘adult’ verse taken from hisCollected Poems(London:
Faber & Faber, 1979 ).
18 Walter de la Mare, ‘Meaning and Poetry’, lecture (n.d.), Literary Papers
of Walter de la Mare, p. 7.
19 Walter de la Mare, ‘Craftsmanship’, lecture (n.d.), Literary Papers of Walter
de la Mare, p. 2.
20 Walter de la Mare, ‘Poetry in Prose’,Proceedings of the British Academy 21 ( 1935 ),
241 – 321 (pp. 246 , 257 ).
21 Ibid.,p. 257.
22 De la Mare, ‘Craftsmanship’, p. 22.
23 Text of de la Mare’s ‘children’s’ verse taken from hisCollected Rhymes and
Verses(London: Faber & Faber, 1978 ).
212 Notes to pages 108 – 15