George MacDonald, Victorian Faerie Author, Pre-Dracula Vampire Classic, etc.

[Extollager]

I have a short scholarly book on Walter de la Mare that I haven't read yet, but that apparently will argue that GM was much of an influence on the poet and novelist. But who reads de la Mare now? I mean to. It'll be interesting to see if he reminds me of GM, whom I have been reading for 50 years.

 

[hitmouse]

A few of de la Mare’s poems are still standard at primary school. I am not sure anyone reads much else of his.

 

[Extollager]

Malcolm Guite reads the opening of MacDonald's Phantastes with gusto and connects the secretary-desk therein to his own.