If the name Walter de la Mare elicits any recognition at all, it’s probably because your tenth-grade English class used an ancient textbook that reprinted “The Listeners,” an eerie, tantalizing poem that begins, “‘Is there anybody there?’ said the Traveller,/Knocking on the moonlit door.” You might even have been given—by an elderly relative, no doubt—a […]

Original source: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/03/09/devilish-agencies-at-work-strangers-and-pilgrims-walter-de-la-mare/