Buy this book on-line de la MARE**, WALTER: : PRIVATE VIEWLONDON.FABER & FABER,1953. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG+/VG+.No owner
inscrptn - part due to removal of 3/4" deep x 4" long clip to top of ffe,and no price-clip to dw/dj but publisher's price pencil scribbled over but stil legible. Brown upper wrap with black+white letters,
cleanish white+black letters rear panel of
author's previous books with minimal shelf-wear and negligible creasing to top edge with some small closed tears and miniscule loss.Top edge coloured,fore-edge very slightly aged; contents bright,tight and clean.Unblemished,publisher's original blue buckram(?) bds with impressed author's initials vignette to upper bd; bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip,gilt title in white label
and plain white eps with off-set foxing from dw/dj's inner flaps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj, 1st edn,v-xvipp+3-256pp includes title+ half-title pages,an introduction by Lord David Cecil,a preface,contents list; 12 essays on novelists+storytellers,16 essays on poets and 12 various other essays.
Everyone knows Mr. de la Mare's poetry,
his novels,his tales,or his anthologies.
Not everyone knows his characteristically appreciative work as a critic,and not all
of those who have enjoyed it have always known that it was his.In this book he gives us a varied selection of these writings most of which have appeared anonymously, whether as 'leaders' or reviews in The Times Literary Supplement' or elsewhere.It throws light upon many aspects of literature,including the novel,
travels,criticism, biography,the English
language,letter-writing,and poetry.
Sometimes we have one of the first assessments of a work which has become a literary landmark;sometimes a revaluation of a classic; and occasionally (showing the reviewer's art no less) a delightful notice of some books which sets his fancy roaming.The volume has a preface,in which
de la Mare looks back to the halcyon days of reviewing and reflects upon the critic's task.Lord David Cecil,in his introduction,considers Mr. de la Mare as a writer whose essays on literature are
'unlike those of anyone else'; whose criticism is 'as unashamedly personal as that of Charles Lamb'.It is 'more inextricably of a piece with his attitude to life in general than is so with most critics'. 'His imagination is always irrepressibly at work'; yet he always keeps his eye on the object he is drawing.' And 'his critical esays,as much as his poems,are themselves works of art; an exquisitely wrought expression of the same odd,profound beautiful vision of reality.'
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