44 Robert M. Pierson, ‘The Metre of “The Listeners”’,English Studies 45 ( 1964 ),
373 – 81.
45 Letter to Georgina Sime, 7 February 1944 , cited in Whistler,Imagination of
the Heart, pp. 203 – 4.
CHAPTER 4 THE SIMPLICITY OF W. H. DAVIES
1 Letter of 9 December 1906 ,inEdward Thomas: Letters to Gordon Bottomley,
ed. R. George Thomas (London: Oxford University Press, 1968 ), p. 128.
2 Edward Thomas, ‘A Poet at Last’,Daily Chronicle, 21 October 1905 ,p. 3.
3 Sybil Hollingdrake, ‘The True Traveller’,Poetry Wales 18 : 2 ( 1982 ), 25 – 44 (p. 35 ).
4 Edward Thomas, ‘A Poet and Mr Shaw’,Daily Chronicle, 23 April 1908 ,p. 3.
5 Edward Thomas, ‘A Poet by Birth’,Daily Chronicle, 4 November 1908 ,p. 3.
6 Edward Thomas, review ofFarewell to Poesy,Morning Post, February 1910 ,
repr. in R. George Thomas, ‘“Immortal Moments”: Edward Thomas and
W. H. Davies’,Poetry Wales 18 : 2 ( 1982 ), 57 – 66 (p. 63 ).
7 LouisMenand,DiscoveringModernism(New York: Oxford University Press,
1987 ), p. 41.
8 ‘New Lamps for Old’, unsigned review, Times Literary Supplement, 6
November 1913 ,p. 506.
9 Ezra Pound, ‘William H. Davies, Poet’,Poetry 11 ( 1917 ), 99 – 102 (pp. 100 , 102 ).
10 F. Schiller, ‘On the Naı ̈ve and Sentimental’, inFriedrich Schiller:Essays, ed.
W. Hinderer and Daniel O. Dahlstrom, trans. Daniel O. Dahlstrom (New
York: Continuum, 1993 ), pp. 196 – 7.
11 T. S. Eliot, ‘Critical’, inThe Collected Poems of Harold Monro, ed. Alida
Monro (London: Cobden-Sanderson, 1933 ), p. xiv.
12 Cited inA Language Not to be Betrayed: Selected Prose of Edward Thomas, ed.
Edna Longley (Manchester: Carcanet, 1981 ), p. 113.
13 Thomas, ‘A Poet and Mr Shaw’, p. 3.
14 Text of this and all subsequent poems from Davies’s Collected Poems
(London: Cape, 1928 ).
15 J. C. Squire, ‘W. H. Davies’,New Statesman, 16 December 1916 ,p. 255.
16 Ibid.,p. 254 , 255.
17 George Bernard Shaw, preface to W. H. Davies,The Autobiography of a
Super-Tramp(London:Fifield, 1908 ;repr. London: Cape, 1926 ), p. ix.
18 Walter de la Mare, ‘Doggerel’, unsigned review,Times Literary Supplement, 21
August 1913 ,p. 341.
19 Eleanor Farjeon, Edward Thomas: The Last Four Years(Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1958 ), p. 13.
20 Labour Camps: Report of the Departmental Committee on Vagrancy, 1906.
21 Josiah Flynt, Tramping with Tramps(London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1900 ),
Edmond Kelly,The Elimination of the Tramp(New York: Putnams, 1908 ).
Sterilisation: W. H. Dawson,The Vagrancy Problem(London: King, 1910 ).
22 Daniel Defoe,Moll Flanders(London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent,
1924 ), p. xii.
214 Notes to pages 127 – 34