De la Mare revisited PAUL DEAN Reading Walter de la Mare
Jun 30, 2021
2 minutes
By Walter de la Mare and William Wootten (editor)
Faber £14.99
At one time, lots of children were made to read Walter de la Mare’s poem The Listeners at school. Nowadays, even if the Traveller broke the door down, he might find there was nobody there.
De la Mare, once a literary lion, centrepiece of the Georgian anthologies, was bypassed by the academy, written off as a melodious
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