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Informationen zum Autor Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) was born in Charlton! Kent. In 1890! aged sixteen! 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)! Motley (1918) and The Veil (1921). He also wrote poetry and short stories for younger readers; Peacock Pie (1913)! a collection of poems for children! is now considered a twentieth-century classic.Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) was born in Charlton! Kent. In 1890! aged sixteen! 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)! Motley (1918) and The Veil (1921). He also wrote poetry and short stories for younger readers; Peacock Pie (1913)! a collection of poems for children! is now considered a twentieth-century classic. Klappentext Offers an introduction which leads to a survey - a panorama - of a wide theme. Zusammenfassung Offers an introduction which leads to a survey - a panorama - of a wide theme.
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Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) was born in Charlton, Kent. From 1890 to 1908, he worked in the statistics department of the London office of Anglo-American Oil. For the rest of his long life, he was a full-time writer. De la Mare's first collection of poetry,
Songs of Childhood, was published under pseudonym in 1902. With the publication of
The Listeners (1912) and the classic volume of children's poetry
Peacock Pie (1913), he established himself as one of the leading poets of the time. In addition to publishing more than a thousand poems, culminating with
The Traveller (1945) and
Winged Chariot (1951), considered by many - among them T. S. Eliot, his editor at Faber - to be his finest poems, de la Mare published novels, including
Memoirs of a Midget (1921), short stories, drama, stories for children and literary criticism. He also edited celebrated anthologies, including
Come Hither (1923) and
Behold This Dreamer (1939). Walter de la Mare received the Order of Merit in 1953.
