The complete online text of Collected Poems 1901-1918 in Two Volumes by Walter de la Mare.

Walter de la Mare's poetry has not received the attention from serious critics that it deserves. It was his misfortune to live through and to be intellectually and poetically unaffected by the two movements in England that shaped the literary consciousne...

Walter de la Mare will be remembered chiefly as a poet and writer of children's verse, the two genres not always clearly distinguishable in his work. But until 1928 he was also a novelist and until the mid-1930s a short-story writer; he was an anthologis...

Walter de la Mare is remembered primarily for his stories and poems for children rather than for his writing for adults. In his own day he was compared to William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Edgar Allan Poe, but time has not...

Lynda Hull. Collected Poems. St. Paul, Minnesota: Graywolf Press, 2006. $15.00 paper (ISBN-13 978-1-55597-457-2), 233 pages. Reviewed by Nathaniel Perry In addition to the pleasure of simply having these long out-of-print poems available once again, it is a gift to have all...

THE POEM," wrote Philip Larkin in 1977, "or the kind of poem we write nowadays, is a single emotional spearpoint, a concentrated effect that is achieved by leaving out everything but the emotion itself." A reader going through Larkin's collected poems in chronological...