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- (1873–1956),poet, published many volumes of verse for both adults and children including, for adults, The Listeners (1912); The Veil (1921); various volumes of Collected Poems; The Burning Glass (1945); and two long visionary poems, ‘The Traveller’ (1946) and ‘The Winged Chariot’ (1951).
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Walter de la Mare: The Complete Poems, ed. Giles de la Mare (1969) Ariel Poems. Six poems were published by Faber and Faber as part of the Ariel Poems, for both series. They were the following: Alone (1927) Self to Self (1928) The Snowdrop (1929) [21] News (1930) To Lucy (1931) The Winnowing Dream (1954)
De la Mare began writing short stories and poetry while working as a bookkeeper in the company’s London office during the 1890s. His first published short story, “Kismet,” appeared in the journal Sketch in 1895.
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Walter de la Mare was born in born in Charlton, Kent, England, in April of 1873. He was one of three sons born to father James Edward de la Mare, a principal at the Bank of England, and Lucy Sophia Browning. De la Mare also had four sisters, one of whom died in infancy. He was known as ‘Jack’ as a youth, not taking on the name Walter until later in...
His first poetry collection ‘Songs of Childhood ‘was published in 1902. It is now considered to be a major work in his career and has been recognized as a prime example of children’s literature. The collection put him on the map of children’s literature, going on to produce a number of anthologies. The work also showed the beginnings of the “romant...
Throughout the early 1900s, the family lived in Beckenham and Anerley with his family. It is said that de la Mare was given a pension of £100 by the government, and this allowed him to put all his energy into creating new works. From 1925 until 1939, he and his family moved to Taplow in Buckinghamshire. Interestingly, Walter’s son Richard went on t...
Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) was the prolific author of many volumes of poetry, short stories and novels, including one of the most enduringly popular poems in the English language, ‘The Listeners’. Born in Charlton, Kent, he was educated at St. Paul’s Cathedral Choir School in London.
Walter de la Mare was a British poet and novelist with an unusual power to evoke the ghostly, evanescent moments in life. De la Mare was educated at St. Paul’s Cathedral Choir School in London, and from 1890 to 1908 he worked in the London office of the Anglo-American Oil Company.
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As well as writing poems for adults and for children, de la Mare wrote novels (Memoirs of a Midget won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction) and short stories, many of which had a supernatural theme. He died in June 1956.
Walter de la Mare was born in April 1873 in England. His poetry has been praised for its consideration of themes like dreams and complex states of mind. His work is sometimes compared to that of Thomas Hardy or William Blake.
