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Born in April 25, 1873 / Died in June 22, 1956 / United Kingdom / English

Bibliography

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FICTION

  • Henry Brocken: His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance (novel), J. Murray (London), 1904, Knopf (New York, NY), 1924.
  • The Return (novel), Arnold (London), 1910, Putnam (New York, NY), 1911, revised edition, Knopf, 1922.
  • Memoirs of a Midget (novel), Collins (London), 1921, Knopf, 1922.
  • Lispet, Lispett, and Vaine (short stories), Morland Press (London), 1923.
  • The Riddle, Selwyn & Blount (London), 1923, published as The Riddle and Other Tales, Knopf, 1923.
  • Ding Dong Bell (short stories), Knopf, 1924.
  • Two Tales: The Green-Room, The Connoisseur, Bookman's Journal (London), 1925.
  • The Connoisseur and Other Stories, Knopf, 1926.
  • At First Sight (short stories), Crosby Gaige (New York, NY), 1928.
  • On the Edge: Short Stories, wood engravings by Elizabeth Rivera, Faber (London), 1930, Knopf, 1931.
  • Seven Short Stories, illustrated by John Nash, Faber, 1931.
  • A Forward Child (short stories), Faber, 1934.
  • The Nap and Other Stories, Nelson (London), 1936.
  • The Wind Blows Over (short stories), Macmillan (New York, NY), 1936.
  • Ghost Stories, illustrated by Freedman, Folio Society (London), 1936.
  • The Picnic and Other Stories, Faber, 1941.
  • Best Stories of Walter de la Mare, Faber, 1942.
  • The Collected Tales of Walter de la Mare, edited by Edward Wagenknecht, Knopf, 1950.
  • A Beginning and Other Stories, Faber, 1955.
  • Best Stories, Faber, 1957.
  • Some Stories, Faber, 1962.
  • Eight Tales, Arkham House (Sauk City, WI), 1971.
  • Short Stories, 1895-1926, edited by Giles de la Mare, Giles de la Mare Publishers (London, England), 1996.

POETRY

  • Poems, Murray, 1906.
  • The Listeners and Other Poems, Constable (London), 1912, Holt (New York, NY), 1916.
  • The Old Men, Flying Fame, 1913.
  • The Sunken Garden and Other Poems, Beaumont Press (London), 1917, also published as The Sunken Garden and Other Verses, Birmingham School of Printing (Birmingham), 1931.
  • Motley and Other Poems, Holt, 1918.
  • Flora, illustrated by Pamela Bianco, Lippincott, 1919.
  • Poems 1901 to 1918, two volumes, Constable, 1920, published as Collected Poems 1901 to 1918, two volumes, Holt, 1920.
  • The Veil and Other Poems, Constable, 1921, Holt, 1922.
  • Thus Her Tale: A Poem, illustrated by William Oglivie, Porpoise Press (Edinburgh), 1923.
  • A Ballad of Christmas, Selwyn & Blount, 1924.
  • The Hostage, Selwyn & Blount, 1925.
  • (With Rudyard Kipling) St. Andrews: Two Poems, A. & C. Black, 1926.
  • Walter de la Mare, edited by Edward Thompson, Benn (London), 1926.
  • Alone, wood engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton, Faber & Gwyer (London), 1927.
  • Selected Poems, Holt, 1927.
  • The Captive and Other Poems, Bowling Green Press (New York, NY), 1928.
  • Self to Self, Faber, 1928.
  • A Snowdrop, illustrated by Claudia Guercio, Faber, 1929.
  • News, illustrated by Barnett Freedman, Faber, 1930.
  • To Lucy, illustrated by Albert Rutherston, Faber, 1931.
  • Two Poems, privately printed, 1931.
  • The Fleeting and Other Poems, Knopf, 1933.
  • Poems 1919 to 1934, Constable, 1935, Holt, 1936.
  • Poems, Corvinus Press, 1937.
  • Memory and Other Poems, Holt, 1938.
  • (With Arthur Rogers) Two Poems, privately printed, 1938.
  • Haunted: A Poem, Linden Press, 1939.
  • Collected Poems, Holt, 1941.
  • Time Passes and Other Poems, edited by Anne Ridler, Faber, 1942.
  • Collected Rhymes and Verse, illustrated by Berthold Wolpe, Faber, 1944, illustrated by Errol Le Cain.
  • The Burning-Glass, Viking Press (New York, NY), 1945, illustrated by John Piper, Faber, 1946.
  • The Traveller, Faber, 1946.
  • Two Poems: Pride, The Truth of Things, Dropmore Press, 1946.
  • Inward Companion, Faber, 1950.
  • Winged Chariot and Other Poems, Viking, 1951.
  • O Lovely England, and Other Poems, Faber, 1953, Viking, 1956.
  • Selected Poems, edited by R. N. Green-Armytage, Faber, 1954.
  • The Winnowing Dream, illustrated by Robin Jacques, Faber, 1954.
  • The Morrow, privately printed, 1955.
  • Collected Poems, illustrated by B. Wolpe, Faber, 1961.
  • Poems, edited by Eleanor Graham, illustrated by Margery Gill, Penguin, 1962.
  • Walter de la Mare, edited by John Hadfield, Vista Books, 1962.
  • A Choice of de la Mare's Verse, edited and with an introduction by W. H. Auden, Faber, 1963.
  • Envoi, privately printed, 1965.
  • The Complete Poems of Walter de la Mare, edited by Leonard Clark and others, Faber, 1969, Knopf, 1970.
  • The Collected Poems of Walter de la Mare, Faber, 1979.

OTHER

  • M. E. Coleridge: An Appreciation, The Guardian, 1907.
  • Rupert Brooke and the Intellectual Imagination: A Lecture, Sidgwick & Jackson (London), 1919, Harcourt (New York, NY), 1920.
  • Some Thoughts on Reading (lecture), Yellowlands Press, 1923.
  • Some Women Novelists of the 'Seventies, Cambridge University Press, 1929.
  • (Editor) Desert Islands and Robinson Crusoe (literary quotations and discussion), illustrated by Rex Whistler, Fountain Press, 1930, revised edition, Faber, 1932.
  • (Editor) Christina Rossetti, Poems, Gregynog Press, 1930.
  • (Editor) The Eighteen-Eighties: Essays by Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature, Macmillan, 1930.
  • The Printing of Poetry (lecture), Cambridge University Press, 1931.
  • The Early Novels of Wilkie Collins, Cambridge University Press, 1932.
  • Lewis Carroll, Faber, 1932.
  • Early One Morning in the Spring: Chapters on Children and on Childhood as It Is Revealed in Particular in Early Memories and in Early Writings, Macmillan, 1935.
  • Poetry in Prose (lecture), H. Milford (London), 1935, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 1937.
  • Arthur Thompson: A Memoir, privately printed, 1938.
  • An Introduction to Everyman, Dent (London), 1938.
  • (Editor) Behold, This Dreamer! (essays), Knopf, 1939.
  • Pleasures and Speculations (essays), Faber, 1940, Books for Libraries Press, 1969.
  • (Editor) Love, Faber, 1943, Morrow (New York, NY), 1946.
  • Private View (essays), Faber, 1953, Hyperion (New York, NY), 1979.

OTHER COLLECTIONS AND SELECTIONS

  • Stories, Essays, and Poems, edited by M. M. Bozman, Dent, 1938.
  • Walter de la Mare: A Selection from His Writings, edited by Kenneth Hopkins, Faber, 1956.
  • Secret Laughter, illustrated by Gill, Penguin, 1969.
  • (Author of poems) Richard Rodney Bennett, Dream-Songs: For Unison Voices or Solo Voice and Piano, Novello (London, England), 1990.

FOR CHILDREN

  • (Under pseudonym Walter Ramal) Songs of Childhood (poetry), Longmans Green (London and New York City), 1902, reprinted by Garland, 1976, revised edition (published under name Walter de la Mare), Longman, 1916, new edition published as Songs of Childhood, illustrated by Estella Canziani, 1923 , illustrated by Marion Rivers-Moore, Faber, 1956.
  • The Three Mulla-Mulgars (fiction), illustrated by J. R. Monsell, Duckworth (London), 1910, illustrated by Dorothy P. Lathrop, Knopf, 1919, illustrated by J. A. Shepherd, Selwyn & Blount, 1924, published as The Three Royal Monkeys, illustrated by Mildred E. Eldridge, Faber, 1969.
  • A Child's Day (poetry), illustrated by Carine Cadby and Will Cadby, Constable, 1912, illustrated by Winifred Bromhall, Holt, 1923.
  • Peacock Pie (poetry), Constable, 1913, illustrated by W. Heath Robinson, 1916, illustrated by Jocelyn Crow, Holt, 1936, illustrated by Edward Ardizzone, Faber, 1946, illustrated by Barbara Cooney, Knopf, 1961, revised edition, Faber, 1969, 1st American edition published by H. Holt (New York, NY), 1989.
  • Story and Rhyme (fiction), Dutton (New York, NY), 1921.
  • Crossings: A Fairy Play, music by Cecil Armstrong Gibbs, illustrated by Randolph Schwabe (produced by Hove, Sussex, 1919, London, 1925), Beaumont Press, 1921, illustrated by Lathrop, Knopf, 1923, illustrated by Gwendolen Raverat, Faber, 1942.
  • Down-Adown-Derry (poetry), illustrated by Lathrop, Holt, 1922.
  • (Editor with Alec Buckels) Come Hither, illustrated by Buckels, Knopf, 1923, revised edition, 1928.
  • 1925-28(Editor with Thomas Quayle) Readings: Traditional Tales Told by the Author, illustrated by A. H. Watson and C. T. Nightingale, six volumes, Blackwell (Oxford), one volume, Knopf, 1927.
  • Broomsticks and Other Tales (fiction), illustrated by Bold, Knopf, 1925.
  • Miss Jemima (fiction), illustrated by Buckels, Basil Blackwell, 1925, Artists and Writers Guild (Poughkeepsie, NY), 1935, published as The Story of Miss Jemima, illustrated by Nellie H. Farnam, Grosset & Dunlap (New York, NY), 1940.
  • (With others) Number Three Joy Street, Appleton (New York City), 1925.
  • (With others) Number Four Joy Street, Appleton, 1926.
  • (With others) Number Five Joy Street, Appleton, 1927.
  • Lucy, illustrated by Hilda T. Miller, Basil Blackwell, 1927.
  • Old Joe (fiction), illustrated by Nightingale, Basil Blackwell, 1927.
  • Stuff and Nonsense and So On (poetry), woodcuts by Bold, Holt, 1927, revised edition, Faber, 1946, illustrated by Margaret Wolpe, Faber, 1957.
  • Told Again: Traditional Tales, illustrated by A. H. Watson, Blackwell, 1927, published as Told Again: Old Tales Told Again, Knopf, 1927, published as Tales Told Again, illustrated by Alan Howard, Faber/Knopf, 1959.
  • (With others) Number Six Joy Street, Appleton, 1928.
  • Stories from the Bible, illustrated by Theodore Nadejen, Cosmopolitan, (New York City) 1929, illustrated by Hawkins, Faber, 1947, illustrated by Ardizzone, Knopf, 1961, reprinted, 1977.
  • Poems for Children, Holt, 1930.
  • The Dutch Cheese and the Lovely Myfanwy (fiction), illustrated by Lathrop, Knopf, 1931, illustrated by Hawkins, Faber, 1946.
  • (Editor) Tom Tiddler's Ground: A Book of Poetry for the Junior and Middle Schools, illustrations from Thomas Bewick, three volumes, Collins, 1931, illustrated by Margery Gill, one volume, Knopf, 1962.
  • (Editor) Old Rhymes and New, Chosen for Use in Schools, two volumes, Constable, 1932.
  • The Lord Fish and Other Tales (fiction), illustrated by Rex Whistler, Faber, 1933, 1st U.S. edition published by Candlewick Press (Cambridge, MA), 1997.
  • Letters from Mr. Walter de la Mare to Form Three, privately printed, 1936.
  • (With Harold Jones) This Year: Next Year (poetry), illustrated by Jones, Holt, 1937.
  • Animal Stories, Chosen, Arranged, and in Some Part Re-Written, Faber, 1939, Scribner (New York, NY), 1940.
  • Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes, illustrated by F. Rowland Emett, Faber, 1941, illustrated by Lathrop, Viking, 1942.
  • The Old Lion and Other Stories (fiction), illustrated by Irene Hawkins, Faber, 1942.
  • Mr. Bumps and His Monkey (fiction), illustrated by Lathrop, J. C. Winston (Philadelphia), 1942.
  • The Magic Jacket, and Other Stories, illustrated by Hawkins, Faber, 1943, illustrated by Paul Kennedy, Knopf, 1962.
  • The Scarecrow and Other Stories, illustrated by Hawkins, Faber, 1945.
  • The Dutch Cheese and Other Stories, illustrated by Hawkins, Faber, 1946.
  • Collected Stories for Children, illustrated by Hawkins, Faber, 1947, illustrated by Jacques, 1967.
  • Rhymes and Verses: Collected Poems for Children, illustrated by Elinore Blaisdell, Holt, 1947.
  • Dick Whittington (adapted from a story appearing in Told Again), illustrated by Ionicus, Hulton, 1951.
  • Jack and the Beanstalk (adapted from a story appearing in Told Again), illustrated by William and Brenda Stobbs, Hulton, 1951.
  • Selected Stories and Verses, edited by Eleanor Graham, Penguin, 1952.
  • The Story of Joseph, illustrated by Ardizzone, Faber, 1958.
  • The Story of Moses, illustrated by Ardizzone, Knopf, 1960.
  • The Story of Samuel and Saul, illustrated by Ardizzone, Faber, 1960.
  • A Penny a Day (fiction), illustrated by Kennedy, Knopf, 1960.
  • Molly Whuppie, illustrated by Errol Le Cain, Straus, 1983.
  • The Voice: A Sequence of Poems, edited and illustrated by Catherine Brighton, Faber, 1986, Delacorte, 1987.
  • Visitors, Creative Education, 1986.
  • The Three Sillies, Creative Education (Mankato, MN), 1991.
  • The Turnip, illustrated by Kevin Hawkes, D. R. Godine (Boston, MA), 1992.