Walter de la Mare (1873–1956)
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Born in a Kent village, Walter de la Mare was born on April 25, 1873. He was an English poet, short story writer and novelist. He is probably best remembered for his works for children and for his poem "The Listeners". His 1921 novel Memoirs of a Midget won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for näytä lisää fiction and his post-war Collected Stories for Children won the 1947 Carnegie Medal for British children's books. De la Mare's 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 to support his family, but nevertheless found time to write. De la Mare suffered from a coronary thrombosis in 1947 and died of another in 1956. His ashes are buried in the crypt of St Paul's Cathedral, where he had once been a choirboy. (Bowker Author Biography) Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) was a poet, novelist, & anthologist. The recipient of numerous awards, he held honorary degrees from Oxford, Cambridge, & several other universities. (Publisher Provided) näytä vähemmän
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Tekijän teokset
Behold, this dreamer : of reverie, night, sleep, dream, love-dreams, nightmare, death, the unconscious, the… (1605) 72 kappaletta
Selected Poems of Walter De La Mare (Poet to Poet: An Essential Choice of Classic Verse) (2006) 19 kappaletta
Come Hither, Vol. 2: a Collection of Rhymes and Poems for the Young of All Ages (1973) 14 kappaletta
The old lion, and other stories 6 kappaletta
All Hallows 5 kappaletta
Seven short stories 5 kappaletta
Story and Rhyme 4 kappaletta
News (The Ariel poems) 4 kappaletta
5 others. 3 kappaletta
Before dawn 3 kappaletta
Two poems 3 kappaletta
MEMORY AND OTHER POEMS 3 kappaletta
The scarecrow and other stories 3 kappaletta
The Riddle [short story] 3 kappaletta
Gengangeren og "What dreams may come" 2 kappaletta
Year's work in English studies : vol. XXIX, 1948 2 kappaletta
Out of the Deep 2 kappaletta
The sunken garden 2 kappaletta
The Connoisseur {short story} 2 kappaletta
A ballad of Christmas 2 kappaletta
Haunted 2 kappaletta
A collection of books, many literary, the majority educational, nearly all with a contribution by Walter de la Mare. 2 kappaletta
A froward child 2 kappaletta
Time passes, and other poems, ([Sesame books]) 2 kappaletta
Twelve poets 2 kappaletta
The connoisseur 1 kappale
The Cupboard 1 kappale
The hostage 1 kappale
The morrow 1 kappale
Thus her tale : a poem 1 kappale
Here All We See 1 kappale
Arthur Thompson : a memoir 1 kappale
Some thoughts on reading 1 kappale
The Tree 1 kappale
The Huntsmen 1 kappale
The old men 1 kappale
Choristers' journal 1 kappale
Now Through the Dusk 1 kappale
Pesnia sna 1 kappale
Some One 1 kappale
Čudežni jopič 1 kappale
The Looking Glass 1 kappale
Two tales 1 kappale
Miss Duveen et autres contes étranges /Walter de la Mare, Laurence Riviale, Leslie Poles Hartley 1 kappale
Bluebells 1 kappale
Ognissanti 1 kappale
Animal Stories. By Walter De La Mare 1 kappale
Sleepyhead 1 kappale
Mary 1 kappale
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 063 1 kappale
AO - Poetry - Year 2 1 kappale
Crystal healing 1 kappale
The printing of poetry 1 kappale
De La Mare Poetry 1 kappale
Miss T. 1 kappale
A Recluse 1 kappale
The poetry review. Volume VII. No. 1 1 kappale
Heidi 1 kappale
An Ideal Craftsman [short story] 1 kappale
The first De la Mare book 1 kappale
Missing {Short Story} 1 kappale
Some imagist poets : an anthology 1 kappale
Essays and studies 1 kappale
The problem of grammar 1 kappale
Tales of the supernatural 1 kappale
Crewe (in Racconti del mistero) 1 kappale
Le tinozze (in Racconti del mistero) 1 kappale
F.P 1 kappale
Scomparsa (in Racconti del mistero) 1 kappale
Bad Company 1 kappale
Walter John de la Mare 1 kappale
Disillusioned 1 kappale
The Nap 1 kappale
Pretty Poll 1 kappale
The Four Brothers {short story} 1 kappale
The Wharf 1 kappale
The Lovely Myfanwy [short story] 1 kappale
A Song of Enchantment {poem} 1 kappale
W.P. Ker, 1855-1923 1 kappale
The Walter de la Mare omnibus 1 kappale
21 others. 1 kappale
Old Joe 1 kappale
Lispet, Lispett and Vaine 1 kappale
An introduction to Everyman 1 kappale
The captive and other poems 1 kappale
A collection of poetry books, many educational, nearly all with a contribution by Walter de la Mare. 1 kappale
Stories Essays & Poems 1 kappale
12 others. 1 kappale
8 others. 1 kappale
16 others. 1 kappale
25 others. 1 kappale
Poems 1 kappale
19 others. 1 kappale
43 others. 1 kappale
23 others. 1 kappale
131 others. 1 kappale
The best poems of 1923 1 kappale
SPE tracts 1 kappale
Songs of praise 1 kappale
The Mount Sinai manuscript of the Bible 1 kappale
Associated Works
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Avustaja, eräät painokset — 917 kappaletta
Aspects of Alice: Lewis Carroll's Dream Child as Seen Through the Critics' Looking-glasses, 1865-1971 (1971) — Avustaja — 117 kappaletta
The Sophisticated Cat: A Gathering of Stories, Poems, and Miscellaneous Writings About Cats (1992) — Avustaja — 99 kappaletta
The House of the Nightmare and Other Eerie Tales (1967) — Tekijä, eräät painokset; Avustaja — 47 kappaletta
There is a Graveyard That Dwells in Man: More Strange Fiction and Hallucinatory Tales (2020) — Avustaja — 42 kappaletta
Buzz Words: Poems About Insects (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series) (2021) — Avustaja — 32 kappaletta
Masters of Shades and Shadows: An Anthology of Great Ghost Stories (1978) — Avustaja — 11 kappaletta
A Treasury of Great Short Stories — Avustaja — 7 kappaletta
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 4, December 1973 — Avustaja — 4 kappaletta
Cubwood — Johdanto — 3 kappaletta
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 4, December 1978 — Avustaja — 1 kappale
Fantastyczne Opowieści — Avustaja — 1 kappale
Stories for girls — Avustaja — 1 kappale
Mystery and Suspense — Avustaja; Avustaja — 1 kappale
Rosemary — Avustaja — 1 kappale
The Uncertain Element: An Anthology of Fantastic Conceptions — Avustaja — 1 kappale
Merkitty avainsanalla
Yleistieto
- Kanoninen nimi
- de la Mare, Walter
- Virallinen nimi
- de la Mare, Walter John
- Muut nimet
- Ramal, Walter (pseudonym)
- Syntymäaika
- 1873-04-25
- Kuolinaika
- 1956-06-22
- Hautapaikka
- St Paul's Cathedral, London, England, UK
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- Yhdistynyt kuningaskunta
- Maa (karttaa varten)
- England, UK
- Syntymäpaikka
- Charlton, Kent, England, UK
- Kuolinpaikka
- Twickenham, Middlesex, England, UK
- Kuolinsyy
- coronary thrombosis
- Asuinpaikat
- Twickenham, London, England, UK
- Koulutus
- St Paul's Cathedral Choir School, London
- Ammatit
- poet
novelist
short story writer
oil industry - Suhteet
- Reid, Forrest (friend)
- Organisaatiot
- Standard Oil (London office|statistics department|1890-1908)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Foreign Honorary|Literature|1955) - Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
- civil list pension (1908)
Royal Society of Literature Prize (1911)
Order of the Companions of Honour (1948)
Order of Merit (1953)
Foyle Poetry Prize (1954)
James Tait Black Memorial Prize (näytä kaikki 7)
Polignac Prize
Jäseniä
Keskustelut
THE DEEP ONES: "Mr. Kempe" by Walter de la Mare, The Weird Tradition (heinäkuu 2023)
THE DEEP ONES: "All Hallows" by Walter de la Mare, The Weird Tradition (kesäkuu 2023)
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Story and Rhyme Tekijä: Walter De La Mare
I think this guy was influenced by Lewis Carroll. His poetry was rhythmic and rhymed which made it easy to read but, apart from one called "The Sleeper", not so easy to understand what his messages were.
Tedious, packed with hackneyed poetic figures. Weirdly similar to “Childe Roland,” but making no allusion to that similarity (as far as I can tell). I felt far more for the horse than the Traveller.
"No breath of wind, / No gleam of sun – / Still the white snow / Whirls softly down / Twig and bough / And blade and thorn / All in an icy / Quiet, forlorn." So begins Walter de la Mare's evocative wintry poem, which captures the enchanted beauty of snowy vistas—the light and shadow, crystal flakes and powdery piles—and which forms the text of this lovely picture book. The accompanying illustrations from Moldovan artist Carolina Rabei depict a small snow-bound town, and one family's preparation for and celebration of Christmas—Santa Claus appears, in four magical pages—expanding the "story" in the poem to include seasonal observances...
The poem Snow was originally included in Walter de la Mare's 1913 poetry collection, Peacock Pie, and is one of four such selections—the other three being Silver, Summer Evening and The Ride-by-Nights—recently made into picture books featuring Rabei's artwork. The four titles together make up Faber & Faber's Four Seasons of Walter de la Mare series. Snow is the second of these books I have read, after The Ride-by-Nights, and was apparently nominated for the Kate Greenaway Medal (now ignominiously renamed the Carnegie Medal for Illustration). I can certainly see why it received that distinction, as the artwork is quite beautiful. I have a weakness for wintry scenes, and Rabei more than delivers! That being said, although I loved both artwork and poetry here, I wasn't sure what to make of the inclusion of the Christmas element in the former, as I think the poem is more about the beauty of winter itself, and the mystery and majesty of snow, rather than about the holiday. I don't think this was the "wrong" choice, as I did love the Christmasy scenes, and for many people winter is tied to the holiday, but I did find myself wondering what else could have been depicted, if the choice has been made to create a "simple" winter book. Leaving this quibble aside, this is nevertheless one that I would recommend to picture book readers and listeners, who enjoy poetic picture books and/or stories about winter wonders.… (lisätietoja)
The poem Snow was originally included in Walter de la Mare's 1913 poetry collection, Peacock Pie, and is one of four such selections—the other three being Silver, Summer Evening and The Ride-by-Nights—recently made into picture books featuring Rabei's artwork. The four titles together make up Faber & Faber's Four Seasons of Walter de la Mare series. Snow is the second of these books I have read, after The Ride-by-Nights, and was apparently nominated for the Kate Greenaway Medal (now ignominiously renamed the Carnegie Medal for Illustration). I can certainly see why it received that distinction, as the artwork is quite beautiful. I have a weakness for wintry scenes, and Rabei more than delivers! That being said, although I loved both artwork and poetry here, I wasn't sure what to make of the inclusion of the Christmas element in the former, as I think the poem is more about the beauty of winter itself, and the mystery and majesty of snow, rather than about the holiday. I don't think this was the "wrong" choice, as I did love the Christmasy scenes, and for many people winter is tied to the holiday, but I did find myself wondering what else could have been depicted, if the choice has been made to create a "simple" winter book. Leaving this quibble aside, this is nevertheless one that I would recommend to picture book readers and listeners, who enjoy poetic picture books and/or stories about winter wonders.… (lisätietoja)
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