Author:Walter de la Mare

Walter John de la Mare
(1873–1956)

Walter John de la Mare

Works

• "Rupert Brooke and the Intellectual Imagination" (1919); lecture
• Lewis Carroll (1930); biography of Lewis Carroll

Novels

• The Three Mulla Muglars (1910)
• The Return (1910; rev. 1922; rev. 1945)
• Memoirs of a Midget (1921)

Collections and short stories

• Henry Brocken (1904)
• The Riddle and Other Stories (1923)
  • The Almond Tree — The Count's Courtship — The Looking Glass — Miss Duveen — Selina's Parable — Seaton's Aunt — The Bird of Travel — The Bowl — The Three Friends — Lispet, Lispett & Vaine — The Tree — Out of the Deep — The Creatures — The Riddle — The Vats
• Ding Dong Bell (1924)
• Broomsticks and Other Tales (1925) (children's stories)
• The Connoisseur and Other Stories (1926) (transcription project)

Individual short stories

• "Benighted" (1906, Pall Mall Magazine)
• "Miss Duveen" (1910 Jan 22, Country Life) (ss)
• Excerpt from The Three Mulla Muglars in The Borzoi 1920
• "The Riddle"
• "The Tree" (1922, The Century Magazine) (ss)
• "Mr. Kempe" (1925, Harper's Magazine)

Poems

• "To a Child" (1914 May, The Pall Mall Magazine) (pm)
• "The Double" (1921, Harper's Magazine) (pm)

Poetry

• "The Listeners" from The Listeners and Other Poems (1912)
• "As I Was Walking"; of especial interest as it is referenced in certain editions of Watership Down
• Levy-Dew (1931)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2026
• "Peacock pie - a book of rhymes"
• Flora … with illustrations by Pamela Bianco. London: Heinemann. 1919. (transcription project)
• Collected Poems (1901-1918) (1920) in two volumes:

  Volume I (transcription project)

  Poems: 1906

  The Listeners: 1914

  Motley: 1919

  Volume II (transcription project)

  Songs of Childhood: 1901

  Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes

• The Veil and other poems (1922) (transcription project)

Anthologised:

• "The Fool Rings his Bells" from A treasury of war poetry, British and American poems of the world war, 1914-1919 (1917)

• 'De la Mare, Walter', The Year's at the Spring, 1920. Illustrated by Harry Clarke
  • Arabia p. 51; Full Moon p. 54; Nod p. 54; The Song of the Mad Prince p. 56

• "Miss Loo", Georgian poetry, 1911-1912

Works about Walter de la Mare

• To Walter de la Mare (1948); poem by T.S. Eliot