20–21987
Volume 1 contains Poems: 1906; The listeners: 1914; and Motley: 1919. Volume 2 is in two parts: Songs of childhood: 1901, and Peacock pie.
Reviewed by J. M. Murray
+ Ath p466 O 8 ’20 750w
“Enough has been said to show Mr de la Mare’s attitude towards poetry and towards life. The question now arises whether this attitude is not somewhat too severely limited to make of him anything more than a delicate craftsman, a painter of miniatures, a carver of cherry-stones.” J: G. Fletcher
+ − Freeman 2:477 Ja 26 ’21 900w
“His artistic presence in our modern world is so surprising that we are tempted to doubt the certainty of it when his books are not in our hands. He is a delightful anachronism. Out of our tangle of violent and discordant colors he makes his white magic. Of Mr de la Mare’s poems for children it is difficult to speak moderately.” Marguerite Wilkinson
+ N Y Times p16 D 19 ’20 1550w
“The poems are like silk threads which are individually fragile, but which, woven together, make a fabric of unmatched fineness and strength, and are capable of taking on the softest, clearest colours. Some of the poems for children are exceedingly successful.”