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Such are the corners of the imagination into which De la Mare has been prying for a lifetime, both as poet and short-story writer. Deceptively sedate, sedately deceptive (it is not an author's business, he holds, to "answer each of our riddles in turn; 'tidy things up' "), he is usually content to say, "Behold, I tell you a mystery." Each reader can supply his own explanation...
Trembling Murderer. Only when De la Mare views the world through the eager, self-seeking eyes of children does his aura of uncanny mystery give place to explicit clarity. The clarity is usually even more gruesome than his riddles...
...COLLECTED TALES OF WALTER DE LA MARE (467 pp.)-Edited by Edward Wagenknecht-Knopf...
Every man has the books he deserves, says Boston University's Edward Wagenknecht in his introduction to this collection-"We find, inevitably, the things that were destined for us." Thus, Wagenknecht and Britain's Walter de la Mare have proved to be made for each other. In fact, Wagenknecht paid his idol what is perhaps the highest compliment that can be given an author: he took him along to read on his honeymoon...
...everybody would go that far, and in the two-dozen Tales in this collection new readers of De la Mare will...