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The Numinous in Walter De La Mare's Memoirs of a Midget
Ist Teil von
Renascence, 2018-03, Vol.70 (2), p.129-144
Ort / Verlag
Milwaukee: Marquette University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2018
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Quelle
Literature Online (LION eBooks)
Beschreibungen/Notizen
The smallest of the marvels of flowers and flies and beetles and pebbles, and the radiance that washed over them, would fill me with a mute, pentup rapture almost unendurable" (34), recalls the childhood vision and love of the natural world associated with the then newly-found work of Thomas Traherne.1 Comparison of the passage in Memoirs of a Midget (34) with Traherne's vision, in his famous words, of the "sweet and curious apprehension of the world" as seen by an innocent child suggests the nature of Traherne's influence on De la Mare.The "pointilliste" technique of the novel reveals the innate qualities of and influences brought to bear upon Miss M and her responses to them, all of which make up her personality.Since the text offers so much information it is worth distinguishing its key features.Two salient factors shape Miss M's responses to experience, and dictate the lines along which her life moves.[...]Miss M realizes she has been wearing her heart on her sleeve for a mean-spirited person to peck at, that her love and care for Fanny have aroused only contempt.[...]after close reading De la Mare's effects were far more subtle and deliberate than they at first appeared (Bayley).