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...time or another, during the past 45 years, almost every critic or lover of English letters has rubbed his eyes and recognized the genius of Walter De la Mare (rhymes with beyond compare). Then, like a man waking at dawn and suddenly sure about something unusual, the reader has either turned over and drifted off again or has quickly lost his hunch-whatever it was-in daytime business...
...literary news, therefore, that in the 76th summer of De la Mare's life, his work has at long last gotten some of the critical recognition it deserves. In April a book of praises from some of England's most respected writers came out on his birthday; last month the Crown made him a Companion of Honor (TIME, June...
...Eliot has paid his homage to De la Mare in unusually limpid verse...
...Strange & the Profane. But such tributes cannot define De la Mare's quality nor pin his shoulders to a critical mat. In contemporary literature no figure is more elusive. Even De la Mare's best friends sometimes think of him as a creature they may have imagined, and he himself long ago made it clear that in imagination he has his breath and being...
...Mare's best novels, The Return (1910) and Memoirs of a Midget (1921) are model achievements in mixing realism with a profound sense of the strange. His best stories, especially Seaton's Aunt, have been compared with Henry James's classic Turn of the Screw for their shivery revelation of supernatural influences that might be merely states of mind...