Word: mares
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mare received a small pension from the government and has never since needed to live in any world but his own-a country house in Buckinghamshire where his four children grew up, later an apartment in Twickenham...
...Mare has made two trips to the U.S., bringing back impressions of train travel that might give Americans a shock of recognition-"and the dread tolling of the engine's bell-surely, apart from that monster's prehistoric trumpetings, the saddest sound in Christendom-as one's huge metallic caravan edges slowly through Main Street...
Last Man Across? As a poet, De la Mare discovered his own vein early and deepened it steadily over half a century. His most famous poem, The Listeners, is no more perfectly written than hundreds of others, some of them, like John Mouldy, as grisly as a child's daydream...
...some acute and saddened critics it has seemed that De la Mare's poetry belonged to an age that is. gone for good. Wrote J. Middleton Murry last spring: "A kind of disorganization seems to have overtaken poetry. 'London Bridge has fallen down.' Perhaps De la Mare was the last man to get safely across, before the first direct hit was scored upon...
Colored Thoughts. During World War II, which De la Mare described characteristically as "the extremest crisis man has ever seen (except a few)," the poet lived quietly, delighted with visits from his grandchildren (he has ten). To his young visitors the old man with his dark massive head like that of a Roman emperor, would sometimes put one of his odd, sharp questions: "What do you think is the color of your thoughts?" He has had nothing to say about the new honors given him, or the reawakening admiration for his work. As for the hardbought value of civilization...