Walter De La Mare
Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) was born in Charlton, Kent. In 1890, aged sixteen, he began work in the statistics department of the London office of Anglo-American Oil. In 1907 he published his first collection of poems under the pseudonym Walter Ramal, but he soon established a wide popular reputation in his own name as a leading poet of the Georgian period with volumes like The Listeners (1912), Motley (1918) and The Veil (1921). He also wrote poetry and short stories for younger readers; Peacock Pie (1913), a collection of poems for children, is now considered a twentieth-century classic. Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) was born in Charlton, Kent. In 1890, aged sixteen, he began work in the statistics department of the London office of Anglo-American Oil. In 1907 he published his first collection of poems under the pseudonym Walter Ramal, but he soon established a wide popular reputation in his own name as a leading poet of the Georgian period with volumes like The Listeners (1912), Motley (1918) and The Veil (1921). He also wrote poetry and short stories for younger readers; Peacock Pie (1913), a collection of poems for children, is now considered a twentieth-century classic.
Books by Walter De La Mare
Early One Morning in the Spring
Walter de la Mare
‘This is a book about childhood, but it is not a mere literary essay, it is a work of the widest learning, exploring the whole field of the subject ... a ...
Desert Islands
Walter de la Mare, illustrated by with decorations by Rex Whistler
Desert Islands opens with a captivating essay on the romance of islands and castaways in literature and life, and the associations that have arisen in the imagination of readers in ...
Love
Walter de la Mare
Walter de la Mare was among the leading proponents of the so-called 'Georgian' poets, a loose assembly of influential literary friends who gathered in London in the years leading up ...
Come Hither
Walter de la Mare
‘The most compelling of anthologies, the most leisurely, and the most complete.’ Observer
First published in 1923, the conception of de la Mare’s collection of poetry and prose ‘for ...
Behold, This Dreamer!
Walter de la Mare
Walter de la Mare's anthologies are in a category of their own, indeed, they are of such excellence as to make the description belittling. Walter de la Mare compiled ...
The Strings are False
Louis MacNeice
An autobiography written in the 1940s but set aside, and published for the first time after MacNeice's death in 1965.
'This incomplete account of himself is masterly, and the ...
Selected Poems of Walter de la Mare
Walter de la Mare
In this new selection from the poetry of Walter de la Mare (the first of its kind for fifty years), Matthew Sweeney draws on the full range of his published ...
Peacock Pie
Walter de la Mare
'Surely one of the great children's books of the century.' The Times
Peacock Pie contains the finest of Walter de la Mare's poems for children, accompanied by exquisite ...
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