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Walter John de la Mare OM CH (/ ˈ d ɛ l ə ˌ m ɛər /; [1] 25 April 1873 – 22 June 1956) was an English poet, short story writer and novelist. He is probably best remembered for his works for children , for his poem "The Listeners", [ 2 ] and for his psychological horror short fiction, including "Seaton's Aunt" and "All Hallows".
Nicholas Nye. Nicholas Nye is a poem by British poet Walter de la Mare. [1] It was published in the year 1931. [2] It has a total of 40 lines. It is written for children aged around 9–10 years. It is a six stanza poem in which the poet is the first person from view and visits an orchard and finds a donkey named 'Nicholas Nye'.
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. ISBN. 1846590663. Foreword by: Alison Lurie. Published in 1921, Memoirs of a Midget is a surrealistic novel, told in the first person, by English poet, anthologist, and short story writer Walter de la Mare, best known for his tales of the uncanny and poetry for children.
Dura Navis. " Dura Navis " was composed by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1787. It is one of his earliest known poems and was written for a school assignment while Coleridge attended Christ's Hospital. The poem describes the pain of solitude that accompanies travel and the risks that accompany a voyage at sea, including combat against others and ...
Georgian Poetry. Georgian Poetry is a series of anthologies showcasing the work of a school of English poetry that established itself during the early years of the reign of King George V of the United Kingdom. The Georgian poets were, by the strictest definition, those whose works appeared in a series of five anthologies named Georgian Poetry ...
News by Walter de la Mare, drawings by Barnett Freedman; A Child is Born by Henry Newbolt, drawings by Althea Willoughby; To Lucy by Walter de la Mare, drawings by Albert Rutherston; To the Red Rose by Siegfried Sassoon, drawings by Stephen Tennant; Triumphal March by T. S. Eliot, drawings by E. McKnight Kauffer (October 1931)
The book contains many major poems, including "I Met At Eve" by Walter de la Mare, "Will There Really Be a Morning" by Emily Dickinson, "Last Night I Dreamed about Chickens" by Jack Prelutsky, and "Escape at Bedtime" by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Collected Stories for Children is a collection of 17 fantasy stories or original fairy tales by Walter de la Mare, first published by Faber in 1947 with illustrations by Irene Hawkins. [1] [3] De la Mare won the annual Carnegie Medal recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject. [4]