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de la Mare, Walter
de la Mare, Walter (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). Among many volumes for children were Peacock Pie (1913), Tom Tiddler's Ground (1932), and Bells and Grass (1941). Several collections were amalgamated in Collected Rhymes and Verses (1970) and Collected Poems (1979). De la Mare's highly individual prose works include the novels Henry Brocken (1904); The Return (1910); the children's story The Three Mulla-Mulgars (1910, later The Three Royal Monkeys); ‘The Almond Tree’ (in The Riddle, 1923); and the celebrated Memoirs of a Midget (1921). Many volumes of short stories, often arresting or bizarre, for both adults and children, include Broomsticks (1925), The Lord Fish (1933), and The Scarecrow (1945). De la Mare's anthologies include Come Hither (1923), a widely admired collection for children; Behold this Dreamer (1939); and Love (1943). Essays and critical work include studies of R. Brooke (1919) and Lewis Carroll—C. L. Dodgson—(1932), and an edition of C. Rossetti in 1930.
De la Mare was fluent, highly inventive, technically skilful, and unaffected by fashion. In his favourite themes of childhood, commonplace objects and events are invested with mystery, and often with an undercurrent of melancholy. |
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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "de la Mare, Walter." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "de la Mare, Walter." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-delaMareWalter.html MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "de la Mare, Walter." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-delaMareWalter.html |
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Walter de la Mare
Walter de la Mare , 1873–1956, English poet and novelist. For many years he worked in the accounting department of the Anglo-American Oil Company. Much of his verse and prose shows delight in imaginative excursions into the shadowed world between the real and the unreal. Included among his books of poetry are Songs of Childhood (1902), The Listeners (1912), Peacock Pie (1913), Poems for Children (1930), and The Fleeting and Other Poems (1933). His fiction includes Henry Brocken (1904), The Return (1910), Memoirs of a Midget (1921), and On the Edge (1930), a collection of somewhat macabre short stories.
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"Walter de la Mare." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Walter de la Mare." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-delaMare.html "Walter de la Mare." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-delaMare.html |
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de la Mare, Walter
de la Mare, Walter (1873–1956) English poet, short-story writer and anthologist. His technically accomplished collections of poems include Songs of Childhood (1902), Peacock Pie (1913), Winged Chariot (1951), and the anthology Come Hither (1923). His prose includes the novel Memoirs of a Midget (1921) and the collection of stories On the Edge (1930).
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"de la Mare, Walter." World Encyclopedia. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "de la Mare, Walter." World Encyclopedia. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O142-delaMareWalter.html "de la Mare, Walter." World Encyclopedia. 2005. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O142-delaMareWalter.html |
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