de la Mare, Walter (də lə mâr), 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.

Bibliography

See J. Atkins, Walter de la Mare: An Exploration (1975); D. Cecil, Walter de la Mare (1978).

de la Mare, Walter (John)

(born April 25, 1873, Charlton, Kent, Eng.—died June 22, 1956, Twickenham, Middlesex) British poet and novelist. De la Mare was of French Huguenot descent. He was educated in London and worked for the Standard Oil Co. (1890–1908) before turning to writing, initially under the pseudonym Walter Ramal. He wrote for both adults and children. His collection Come Hither (1923) was especially highly praised. Memoirs of a Midget (1921) was his best-known novel. His Collected Stories for Children appeared in 1947.

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Where there had been Stevenson, Kipling, and Walter de la Mare there were Huxley, Auden, and Virginia Woolf.

A dark horse: the great Roy Campbell heaped wonderful abuse on the ... by Scruton, Roger / The American Spectator

Following his death, the quarterly journal Music and Letters published a tribute to Ivor Gurney in the form of a symposium, with contributions inter alia from Walter de la Mare, Edmund Blunden, Herbert Howells and Ralph Vaughan Williams.

Ivor Gurney: from triumph to tragedy by Hart, Linda / Contemporary Review

Growing up in Cheshire, Peter read John Keats, Walter de la Mare and traditional Victorian poets.

culture: The hills are alive; Shortlisted for poetry's most ... by The Journal (Newcastle, England)

Walsingham, Sir Francis