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...monograph, "Rupert Brooke and the Intellectual Imagination", Walter de la Mare quotes from a letter written to him by an American friend, "We over here can't have all the simple, lovely and solitary things of which Englishmen write. It helps so much to think of them as they are in England...
There are many of us who have this feeling for England and for all that springs from English earth. We go to the poems of John Masefield, Edward Thomas and Walter de la Mare for just this lovely, solitary thing that only England can give...
...Memoirs of a Midget" by Walter de la Mare gives to its readers all of this beauty--and more. It is a lasting book, a memorable book, so piercing, so palpable is it in the dwelling music of its words...
This book is quick with moments of such beauty as only Walter de la Mare can achieve. There are sentences on every page that bite one. I could quote whole paragraphs but the space is denied...
...untutored and violently prejudiced mind, there are five poems in the volume so much better than all the rest that they should be printed in red. They are: "On Growing Old", by John Masefield; "the Dawn Wind", by Rudyard Kipling; "The Mocking Fairy", by Walter de la Mare; "The Little "Uavern", by Edna St. Vincent Millany; "The Ploughman", by Karle Wilson Baker. One of these is a pair of second-best; one, a "Fairy laughing softly in the garden", one, a simple little song, both old and new; one, free verse. With half-a-dozen others, they hint what...