'Food parcels and fond hopes': Some Correspondence of Walter de la Mare.

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  • Peter Whiteford

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26686/knznq.v4i1.735

Abstract

In 1937, George Allen & Unwin published a volume of verse by the New Zealand poet Eileen Duggan. Simply titled Poems, it included an introduction of several pages by Walter de la Mare, who had written his remarks at the request of the Jesuit priest, C. C. Martindale. Some months after the publication of Poems, de la Mare wrote to Eileen Duggan, in response to a letter from her, repeating his favourable comments on her verse, and remarking that his only wish had been 'to be of some small service' to the poems. Thus began an occasional correspondence between two poets who, each in their own settings,had become more and more marginalised by shifting fashions in poetry. It was a correspondence that continued, intermittently, over the next eighteen years,ending only with de la Mare's death, at the age of eighty-three, on June 22nd,1956.

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Peter Whiteford

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Published

2001-03-08