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Walter de la Mare

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born

April 25, 1873 in Charlton, Greenwich, London, England, The United Kingdom

died

June 22, 1956

gender

male

genre

Children's Books, Literature & Fiction, Poetry

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Walter John de la Mare was an English poet, short story writer and novelist, probably best remembered for his works for children and The Listeners. He was descended from a family of French Huguenots, and was educated at St Paul's School. His first book, Songs of Childhood, was published under the name Walter Ramal. He worked in the statistics department of the London office of Standard Oil for eighteen years while struggling to bring up a family, but nevertheless found enough time to write, and, in 1908, through the efforts of Sir Henry Newbolt he received a Civil List pension which enabled him to concentrate on writing;

One of de la Mare's special interests was the imagination, and this contributed both to the popularity of his children's w...more

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Books by Walter de la Mare

Average rating: 4.07 · 916 ratings · 138 reviews · 115 distinct works

	Memoirs of a Midget by Walter de la Mare, Alison Lurie (Foreword) 3.54 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 1922 — 27 editions	My rating:
	The Return by Walter de la Mare, S.T. Joshi (Introduction) 3.32 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1910 — 32 editions	My rating:
	Short Stories 1927 1956 (V. 2) 4.07 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2000	My rating:
	Come Hither: A Family Treasury of Best-Loved Rhymes and Poems for Children 4.39 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1923 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Complete Poems Of Walter De La Mare 4.15 avg rating — 13 ratings	My rating:
	Peacock Pie 4.00 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1913 — 24 editions	My rating:
	The Collected Poems of Walter de La Mare 3.67 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1944 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Turnip by Walter de la Mare, Kevin Hawkes (Illustrator) 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Best Stories of Walter De La Mare 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1983	My rating:
	Strangers and Pilgrims 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2007	My rating:

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Quotes by Walter de la Mare

“Once a man strays out of the common herd, he's more likely to meet wolves in the thickets than angels.”
― Walter de la Mare, The Return

tags: individuality

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“Lear, Macbeth. Mercutio – they live on their own as it were. The newspapers are full of them, if we were only the Shakespeares to see it. Have you ever been in a Police Court? Have you ever watched tradesmen behind their counters? My soul, the secrets walking in the streets! You jostle them at every corner. There's a Polonius in every first-class railway carriage, and as many Juliets as there are boarding-schools. ... How inexhaustibly rich everything is, if you only stick to life.”
― Walter de la Mare, The Return

tags: authenticity , writers , writing

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“His brow is seamed with line and scar;
His cheek is red and dark as wine;
The fires as of a Northern star
Beneath his cap of sable shine.

His right hand, bared of leathern glove,
Hangs open like an iron gin,
You stoop to see his pulses move,
To hear the blood sweep out and in.

He looks some king, so solitary
In earnest thought he seems to stand,
As if across a lonely sea
He gazed impatient of the land.

Out of the noisy centuries
The foolish and the fearful fade;
Yet burn unquenched these warrior eyes,
Time hath not dimmed, nor death dismayed.”
― Walter de la Mare

tags: poem , warrior

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