Reading Walter De La Mare by William Wootton Nancy Gaffield McGlinchey’s search for belonging voyages

McGlinchey’s search for belonging voyages the reader through a sequence of unforgettable landscapes

people vanish on journeys

” “Dragon lines at Culbone

joining the protagonist in scenarios both humorously bizarre and all-too-familiar

Reading Walter De La Mare by William Wootton Nancy Gaffield McGlinchey’s search for belonging voyagesWalter de la Mare (1873 1956) was one of the best loved English poets of the twentieth century, his verse admired by contemporaries including Thomas Hardy, Robert Frost, W. H. Auden and T. S. Eliot. This volume presents a new selection of de la Mare's finest poems, including perennial favourites such as 'Napoleon', 'Fare Well' and 'The Listeners', for a twenty first century audience. The poems are accompanied by commentaries by William Wootten, which