24 Literary Papers of Walter de la Mare, lecture, p. 13. Labelled ‘Craftsmanship
in Poetry’ and marked as ‘old’, the TS is itself a reincorporation of parts of
‘Poetic Technique’, dated 1920.
25 Ibid.,p. 5.
26 ‘Doggerel’, p. 341.
27 See Giorgio Agamben,The End of the Poem: Studies in Poetics, trans. Daniel
Heller-Roazen (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999 ), p. 111.
28 W. H. Auden, ‘Walter de la Mare’, inForewords and Afterwords(London:
Faber & Faber, 1973 ), 384 – 94 (p. 389 ).
29 Ibid.
30 Adam Phillips,The Beast in the Nursery(London: Faber & Faber, 1998 ),
p. 45.
31 Walter de la Mare, ‘Books for Children’, Literary Papers of Walter de la
Mare, paginated 2 but not in sequence.
32 Walter de la Mare, ‘The English Lyric’,Times Literary Supplement, 2 October
1913 , pp. 405 – 6.
33 Ezra Pound, ‘In Metre’,New Freewoman 1 ( 1913 ), 113 ,EPP,I,p. 152.
34 Nicolas Abraham,Rhythms: On the Work, Translation and Psychoanalysis,
collected and presented by Nicholas T. Rand and Maria Torok, trans.
Benjamin Thigpen and Nicholas T. Rand (Stanford, CA: Stanford University
Press, 1995 ), p. 70.
35 Sigmund Freud, ‘The Uncanny’, Penguin Freud Library, trans. James
Strachey, ed. Angela Richards and Albert Dickson (Harmondsworth:
Penguin, 1990 – 3 ), XIV:Art and Literature, ed.Albert Dickson ( 1990 ),
pp. 336 – 76 (p. 364 ).
36 Ibid.,p. 340.
37 Although Freud claimed thatThe Interpretation of Dreamswas based on ‘a
portion of my own self-analysis’ (Preface to the Second Edition, repr. in
Penguin Freud Library, IV:The Interpretation of Dreams, ed. Angela Richards
(Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1991 ), p. 47 .)
38 Neil Hertz, ‘Freud and the Sandman’, inThe End of the Line(New York:
Columbia University Press, 1985 ), pp. 97 – 121 (p. 99 ). S. S. Towheed
emphasises another sense of the text’s own uncanniness in ‘R. L. Stevenson’s
Sense of the Uncanny: “The Face in the Cheval-Glass”’,English Literature in
Transition 42 ( 1999 ), 23 – 38 (pp. 23 – 5 ).
39 Freud, ‘The Uncanny’, p. 341.
40 V. C. F. Rost,Deutsch–Griechisches Wo ̈rterbuch(Go ̈ttingen: Bandenho ̈f
& Ruprecht, 1837 ); H. Schenkl, Deutsch–Griechisches Schul-Wo ̈rterbuch
(Leipzig: Teubner, 1897 ).
41 Freud, ‘The Uncanny’, p. 361.
42 Freud, ‘The Uncanny’, p. 376 and ‘Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality’,
Penguin Freud Library, VII:On Sexuality, ed. Angela Richards (Harmonds-
worth: Penguin, 1991 ), p. 147 ,n. 1.
43 F. R. Leavis,NewBearingsin English Poetry(London: Chatto & Windus,
1932 ), pp. 52 – 4.
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