- Walter de la Mare: Essayist -
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As well as writing poetry, short stories and novels, Walter de la Mare was an outstanding literary critic. In addition to the critical studies listed below (of which Pleasure and Speculations (1940) and Private View (1953) are argubly the most significant), de la Mare also served as main critic on the Times Literary Supplement for about a dozen years from 1910: he contributed 214 reviews and articles. He also contributed a large number of reviews for the Westminster Gazzette.
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M.E. Coleridge: An Appreciation, London, The Guardian, 1907Rupert Brooke and the Intellectual Imagination: A Lecture, London, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1919
Some Thoughts on Reading (lecture), Bembridge, Yellowsands Press, 1923
Some Women Novelists of the 'Seventies, Cambridge University Press, 1929
The Eighteen-Eighties: Essays by Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature, Macmillan, 1930
The Printing of Poetry (lecture), Cambridge University Press, 1931
The Early Novels of Wilkie Collins, Cambridge University Press, 1932
Lewis Carroll, London, Faber, 1932
Poetry in Prose (lecture), H. Milford, 1935, Oxford University Press, 1937
Arthur Thompson: A Memoir, privately printed, 1938
An Introduction to Everyman, London, Dent, 1938
Stories, Essays and Poems, edited by M.M. Bozman, London, Dent, 1938
Pleasures and Speculations, London, Faber, 1940; Books for Libraries Press, 1969
Private View (with an introduction by Lord David Cecil), London, Faber, 1953; Hyperion, 1979
