About Walter de la Mare
Walter de la Mare was one of the leading poets and novelists of the twentieth century. His writings are known throughout the world, and have been translated into numerous languages. He wrote poetry and fiction for both adults and children. He is loved and admired equally by the young and the old. Together with the Complete Poems, published in 1969 and also edited by Giles de la Mare, Short Stories I, II and III will provide the definitive text of all Walter de la Mare's creative writings apart from his three full-length novels, Henry Brocken, The Return and Memoirs of a Midget. De la Mare was in addition an anthologist of genius and an outstanding literary critic, serving as the main critic on the TLS for over a dozen years.
Novels
Henry Brocken: His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance (1904)
The Return (1910)
The Three Mulla-Mulgars (1910)
aka The Three Royal Monkeys
Memoirs of a Midget (1921)
Crossings, a Fairy Play (1923)
Lucy (1927)
Desert Islands (1930)
A Forward Child (1934)
Sun Before Seven (1936)
Behold, This Dreamer! (1939)
Mr. Bumps and His Monkey (1942)
Visitors (1986)
The Return (1910)
The Three Mulla-Mulgars (1910)
aka The Three Royal Monkeys
Memoirs of a Midget (1921)
Crossings, a Fairy Play (1923)
Lucy (1927)
Desert Islands (1930)
A Forward Child (1934)
Sun Before Seven (1936)
Behold, This Dreamer! (1939)
Mr. Bumps and His Monkey (1942)
Visitors (1986)
Collections
Motley: And Other Poems (poems) (1918)
The Veil, and Other Poems (poems) (1921)
Down-a-Down-Derry (1922)
Ding Dong Bell (1924)
Peacock Pie (1924)
Broomsticks: And Other Tales (1925)
Poems 1901-1918 (poems) (1925)
Two Tales: The Green-Room; The Connoisseur (1925)
The Connoisseur: And Other Stories (1926)
Told Again: Traditional Tales Told By Walter De La Mare (1927)
Stories from the Bible (1929)
On The Edge (1930)
Seven Short Stories (1931)
The Dutch Cheese and The Lovely Myfanwy (1931)
The Lord Fish: And Other Tales (1933)
The Wind Blows Over (1936)
Stories, Essays and Poems (poems) (1938)
The Picnic: And Other Stories (1941)
Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes (poems) (1941)
Best Stories of Walter de la Mare (1942)
The Old Lion: And Other Stories (1942)
Time Passes: And Other Poems (poems) (1942)
The Magic Jacket: And Other Stories (1943)
Collected Rhymes and Verses (1944)
The Scarecrow: And Other Stories (1945)
The Burning Glass (1945)
The Dutch Cheese: And Other Stories (1946)
Stuff and Nonsense (1947)
Collected Stories for Children (1947)
The Collected Tales of Walter de la Mare (1950)
Winged Chariot (1951)
Inward Companions (poems) (1951)
Come Hither (1954)
A Beginning: And Other Stories (1955)
Ghost Stories (1956)
Some Stories (1962)
Walter De La Mare: Poems Selected by Charles Causley (poems) (1962)
Selected Poems of Walter De La Mare (poems) (1973)
Short Stories 1895 - 1926 (1996)
Walter De La Mare, Short Stories 1927-1956: Vol 2 (2000)
Short Stories III (2002)
The Listeners and Other Poems (poems) (2004)
The Veil, and Other Poems (poems) (1921)
Down-a-Down-Derry (1922)
Ding Dong Bell (1924)
Peacock Pie (1924)
Broomsticks: And Other Tales (1925)
Poems 1901-1918 (poems) (1925)
Two Tales: The Green-Room; The Connoisseur (1925)
The Connoisseur: And Other Stories (1926)
Told Again: Traditional Tales Told By Walter De La Mare (1927)
Stories from the Bible (1929)
On The Edge (1930)
Seven Short Stories (1931)
The Dutch Cheese and The Lovely Myfanwy (1931)
The Lord Fish: And Other Tales (1933)
The Wind Blows Over (1936)
Stories, Essays and Poems (poems) (1938)
The Picnic: And Other Stories (1941)
Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes (poems) (1941)
Best Stories of Walter de la Mare (1942)
The Old Lion: And Other Stories (1942)
Time Passes: And Other Poems (poems) (1942)
The Magic Jacket: And Other Stories (1943)
Collected Rhymes and Verses (1944)
The Scarecrow: And Other Stories (1945)
The Burning Glass (1945)
The Dutch Cheese: And Other Stories (1946)
Stuff and Nonsense (1947)
Collected Stories for Children (1947)
The Collected Tales of Walter de la Mare (1950)
Winged Chariot (1951)
Inward Companions (poems) (1951)
Come Hither (1954)
A Beginning: And Other Stories (1955)
Ghost Stories (1956)
Some Stories (1962)
Walter De La Mare: Poems Selected by Charles Causley (poems) (1962)
Selected Poems of Walter De La Mare (poems) (1973)
Short Stories 1895 - 1926 (1996)
Walter De La Mare, Short Stories 1927-1956: Vol 2 (2000)
Short Stories III (2002)
The Listeners and Other Poems (poems) (2004)
Picture Books
Non fiction
Anthologies containing stories by Walter de la Mare
The Ghost Book (1926)
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror 1st Series (1928)
Shudders (1929)
A Second Century of Creepy Stories (1930)
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror 2nd Series (1931)
A Century of Creepy Stories (1934)
The Mystery Book (1934)
The Great Book of Humour (1935)
The Great Book of Thrillers (1935)
A Century of Ghost Stories (1936)
The Mammoth Book of Thrillers, Ghosts and Mysteries (1936)
And the Darkness Falls (1946)
The Moonlight Traveller (1949)
The Second Ghost Book (1952)
The Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1964)
The House of the Nightmare: And Other Eerie Tales (1967)
A Century of Horror (1971)
Great British Short Stories (1974)
The 18th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1982)
Black Water (1984)
The Book of Fantasy (1988)
Uncanny Banquet (1992)
The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (1996)
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror 1st Series (1928)
Shudders (1929)
A Second Century of Creepy Stories (1930)
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror 2nd Series (1931)
A Century of Creepy Stories (1934)
The Mystery Book (1934)
The Great Book of Humour (1935)
The Great Book of Thrillers (1935)
A Century of Ghost Stories (1936)
The Mammoth Book of Thrillers, Ghosts and Mysteries (1936)
And the Darkness Falls (1946)
The Moonlight Traveller (1949)
The Second Ghost Book (1952)
The Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1964)
The House of the Nightmare: And Other Eerie Tales (1967)
A Century of Horror (1971)
Great British Short Stories (1974)
The 18th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1982)
Black Water (1984)
The Book of Fantasy (1988)
Uncanny Banquet (1992)
The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (1996)
Short stories
| The Almond Tree (1909) | |||
| The Listeners (1911) | |||
| Seaton's Aunt (1922) | |||
| The Looking Glass (1923) | |||
| Out of the Deep (1923) | |||
| The Riddle (1923) | |||
| The Tree (1923) | |||
| Alice's Godmother (1925) | |||
| Broomsticks (1925) | |||
| The Connoisseur (1925) | |||
| The Dutch Cheese (1925) | |||
| The Green Room (1925) | |||
| The Lovely Myfanwy (1925) | |||
| Lucy (1925) | |||
| Miss Jemima (1925) | |||
| The Three Sleeping Boys of Warwickshire (1925) | |||
| All Hallows (1926) | |||
| Disillusioned (1926) | |||
| The Lost Track (1926) | |||
| Missing (1926) | |||
| Mr Kempe (1926) | |||
| The Nap (1926) | |||
| Pretty Poll (1926) | |||
| A Recluse (1926) | |||
| The Wharf (1926) | |||
| Crewe (1929) | |||
| Dick and the Beanstalk (1933) | |||
| The Lord Fish (1933) | |||
| The Magic Jacket (1933) | |||
| A Penny a Day (1933) | |||
| The Scarecrow (1933) | |||
| The House (1936) | |||
| A Revenant (1936) | |||
| The Trumpet (1936) | |||
| 'What Dreams May Come' (1936) | |||
| The Guardian (1952) | |||
| Bad Company (1955) | |||
| The Quincunx (1955) | |||
| A Mote (1971) | |||
| At First Sight | |||
| An Ideal Craftsman | |||
| In the Forest | |||
| Lichen | |||
| Maria-Fly | |||
| Miss Duveen | |||
| Miss Miller | |||
| 'A Nest of Singing Birds' | |||
| The Old Lion | |||
| The Orgy | |||
| Physic | |||
| The Picnic | |||
| The Picture | |||
| The Princess | |||
| Sambo and the Snow Mountains | |||
| The Three Friends | |||
| The Vats | |||
| Visitors |
Awards
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Books about Walter de la Mare
Arthur Ransome, Rudyard Kipling and Walter De La Mare (1968) by Leonard Clark, Hugh Shelley and Rosemary Sutcliff
Romantic Imagery in the Works of Walter De La Mare (2001) by Anne Bentinck
Romantic Imagery in the Works of Walter De La Mare (2001) by Anne Bentinck
Walter de la Mare recommends
Dr. Bradley Remembers (1938) Francis Brett Young "I delight in all Brett Young novels." |
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