Background
Walter John de la Mare was born on April 25, 1873 at Charlton, Kent, England to James Edward de la Mare, a principal at the Bank of England, and Lucy Sophia Browning.
St. Paul's Cathedral Choir School, London
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(I heard along the early hills, Ere yet the lark was risen...)
I heard along the early hills, Ere yet the lark was risen up, Ere yet the dawn with firelight fills The night-dew of the bramble-cup,— I heard the fairies in a ring Sing as they tripped a lilting round Soft as the moon on wavering wing. The starlight shook as if with sound, As if with echoing, and the stars Prankt their bright eyes with trembling gleams While red with war the gusty Mars Rained upon earth his ruddy beams. He shone alone, low down the West, While I, behind a hawthorn-bush, Watched on the fairies flaxen-tressed The fires of the morning flush. Till, as a mist, their beauty died, Their singing shrill and fainter grew; And daylight tremulous and wide Flooded the moorland through and through; Till Urdon's copper weathercock Was reared in golden flame afar, And dim from moonlit dreams awoke The towers and groves of Arroar.
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1922
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Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) was born in Charlton, Kent. In 1890, aged 16, he began work in the statistics department of the London office of Anglo-American Oil. In 1907 he published his first collection of poems under the pseudonym Walter Ramal, but he soon established a wide popular reputation in his own name as a leading poet of the Georgian period with volumes like The Listeners (1912), Peacock Pie (1913), Motley (1918) and The Veil (1921). This selection combines poems written for adults and children, the latter of which W. H. Auden commends as unrivalled in their 'revelation of the wonders of the English language...'
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1927
Walter John de la Mare was born on April 25, 1873 at Charlton, Kent, England to James Edward de la Mare, a principal at the Bank of England, and Lucy Sophia Browning.
De la Mare was educated at St. Paul's Cathedral Choir School, London, where he began his literary career by founding and editing the school magazine.
In 1890 de la Mare became a clerk in the London office of the Anglo-American Oil Company, and there he worked for 18 years. Under the pseudonym "Walter Ramal," he published his first short story in the Sketch in 1895. His first volume of verse was Songs of Childhood (1902), and his first novel was Henry Brocken (1904).
In 1908, he received a Civil List pension which enabled him to concentrate on writing. His second novel, The Return (1910), won the Polignac Prize, and The Listeners, and Other Poems (1912) firmly established his reputation as a poet of delicacy, subtlety, and originality.
In 1921 his fame was augmented by a noteworthy novel, Memoirs of a Midget. In his novels, short stories, and poems he is ceaselessly concerned with the supernatural, the fairy-like, the macabre, and the subtly naive. His interest in the child's perceptions led him to write many poems for children. His constant theme is the mysteriousness of experience and the awareness that the simplest event is shadowed by the inexplicable. His later works include The Traveller (1946), a long poem, Collected Tales (1949), Winged Chariot and Other Poems (1951), Private View (1953), a book of literary essays, and O Lovely England (1953), poems.
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1927Physical Characteristics: De la Mare suffered from a coronary thrombosis in 1947 and died of another in 1956.
De la Mare was married to Elfrida Ingpen. The marriage produced 4 children - Dick, Florence, Jenny and Colin.