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In 1892 de la Mare joined the Esperanza Amateur Dramatics Club, where he met and fell in love with (Constance) Elfrida Ingpen, the leading lady, who was ten years older than him. Her father, William Alfred Ingpen, was Clerk to the Insolvent Debtors Court and Clerk of the Rules. De la Mare and Elfrida
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has described de la Mare's supernatural fiction for adults as being "among the finest to appear in the first half of this century", whilst noting the disparity between the high quality and low quantity of de la Mare's mature horror stories. Other notable de la Mare ghost/horror stories are "A:B:O",
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has been found to be incorrect.) He had two brothers, Francis Arthur Edward and James Herbert, and four sisters, Florence Mary, Constance Eliza, Ethel (who died in infancy) and Ada Mary. De la Mare preferred to be known as "Jack" to his family and friends, as he disliked the name Walter.
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said that " is able to put into his occasional fear-studies a keen potency which only a rare master can achieve". Lovecraft singled out for praise de la Mare's short stories "Seaton's Aunt", "The Tree", "Out of the Deep", "Mr Kempe", "A Recluse" and "All Hallows", along with his novel
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and one of de la Mare's friends, a certain Dr Bett, arranged to secretly produce a tribute for his 75th birthday. This publication was a collaborative effort involving many admirers of Walter de la Mare's work, and included individual pieces by a variety of authors, including
1272:. In 1944, when the protagonist David Staunton is sixteen, de la Mare's play is produced by the pupils of his sister's school in Toronto. Staunton falls deeply in love with the girl playing the main role, a first love that has a profound effect on the rest of his life. 860:, as well as "Kismet", "The Hangman Luck", "A Mote", "The Village of Old Age", "The Moon's Miracle", "The Giant", "De Mortuis", "The Rejection of the Rector", "The Match-Maker", "The Budget", "The Pear-Tree", "Leap Year", "Promise at Dusk", "Two Days in Town" 642:
The increasing intrusions of the external world upon the mind, however, frighten the childlike imagination, which "retires like a shocked snail into its shell". From then onward the boyish imagination flourishes, the "intellectual, analytical type".
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In the lecture "Rupert Brooke and the Intellectual Imagination" de la Mare uses the term "imagination" for both the intellectual and the visionary. To simplify and clarify his language de la Mare generally used the more conventional
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in 1947 and died of another in 1956. He spent his final year mostly bedridden, being cared for by a nurse whom he loved but never had a physical relationship with. His ashes are buried in the crypt of
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has said that de la Mare's supernatural fiction "should always have an audience that will shudder apprehensively at its horror and be moved to somber reflection by its pensive philosophy".
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De la Mare opined that all children fall into the category of having a childlike imagination at first, which is usually replaced at some point in their lives. He explained in the lecture "
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cited some of de la Mare's short stories, such as "The Almond Tree" and "Sambo and the Snow Mountains", for their sometimes unexplained quality, which she also employed in her own work.
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and the Intellectual Imagination" that children "are not bound in by their groping senses. Facts to them are the liveliest of chameleons. They are contemplatives, solitaries,
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De la Mare described two distinct "types" of imagination โ€“ although "aspects" might be a better term: the childlike and the boylike. It was at the border between the two that
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By adulthood (de la Mare proposed), the childlike imagination has either retreated forever or grown bold enough to face the real world. Thus emerge the two extremes of the
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Behold, This Dreamer!: Of Reverie, Night, Sleep, Dream, Love-Dreams, Nightmare, Death, the Unconscious, the Imagination, Divination, the Artist, and Kindred Subjects
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and can be read on several levels. It was first published in 1923 and was a success; further editions have followed. It includes a selection of poems by the leading
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were married on 4 August 1899, and they went on to have four children: Richard Herbert Ingpen, Colin, Florence and Lucy Elfrida. The family lived in
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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
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from 1899 till 1924. The home in Anerley in South London was the scene of many parties, notable for imaginative games of
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Blackmore, Leigh (2017). S. T. Joshi (ed.). "In Pursuit of the Transcendent: The Weird Verse of Walter de la Mare".
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Joan Aiken (1976). Geoff Fox; Graham Hammond; Terry Jones; Frederic Smith; Kenneth Sterck (eds.).
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Jungian Psychology in Robertson Davies' Fifth Business and The Manticore: The Hero and His Quest
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set several of de la Mare's verses to music: de la Mare's version of the traditional song "
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silk merchants through his father, James Edward de la Mare (1811โ€“1877), a principal at the
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quotes de la Mare's poem "Fare Well": "Look thy last on all things lovely / Every hour.".
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and author, Dr Colin Arrott Browning. (The suggestion that Lucy was related to the poet
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On 7 September 1929, his daughter, Janette de la Mare married Donald John Ringwood in
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is an anthology edited by de la Mare, mostly of poems, but with some prose. It has a
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Gary William Crawford, "On the Edge: the Ghost Stories of Walter de la Mare" in
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short fiction, including "Seaton's Aunt" and "All Hallows". In 1921, his novel
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The Burning-Glass: A Developmental Study of Walter de la Mare's Poetry
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Living Archive: Celebrating the Carnegie and Greenaway Winners
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A number of later writers of supernatural fiction, including
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De la Mare's supernatural horror writings were favourites of
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From 1925 to 1939, de la Mare lived at Hill House, Taplow.
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Walter de la Mare (lyrics) and Benjamin Britten (music),
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Walter de la Mare โ€“ Poet of Anerley and South East London
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Imagination of the Heart:The Life of Walter de la Mare
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The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature
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St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost and Gothic Writers
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He was partly descended from a family of French 2276:"Neglected Gems: The Poetry of Walter de la Mare" 1943:Tribute to Walter de la Mare on his 75th Birthday 1928:Tribute to Walter de la Mare on his 75th Birthday 1913:Tribute to Walter de la Mare on his 75th Birthday 1898:Tribute to Walter de la Mare on his 75th Birthday 1852:Tribute to Walter de la Mare on his 75th Birthday 1837:Tribute to Walter de la Mare on his 75th Birthday 1822:Tribute to Walter de la Mare on His 75th Birthday 1564:Julian de la Mare and Jane Baddeley (daughter of 380:pension so that he could concentrate on writing. 2383:Members of the Order of the Companions of Honour 2329: 1940: 1925: 1910: 1895: 1849: 1834: 1349: 1347: 2423:People educated at St. Paul's Cathedral School 1735:Rupert Brooke and the Intellectual Imagination 866:(2000): Collection comprising the contents of 848:(1996): Collection comprising the contents of 416:From 1940 until his death de la Mare lived in 409:In 1940 Elfrida de la Mare was diagnosed with 2115:. Chicago: Shasta Publishers. pp. 96โ€“97. 1975:. Thesis (M.A.)--University of New Brunswick. 1655:Children's literature: An Illustrated History 882:Walter de la Mare, Short Stories for Children 1344: 1046:, for both series. They were the following: 300:, for his poem "The Listeners", and for his 1427: 1425: 2433:James Tait Black Memorial Prize recipients 2052: 2030: 1768: 1756: 1731: 1698: 1674:"De la Mare, Walter" in Brian Stableford, 1639:, Walter de la Mare, at books.google.co.uk 1395: 977:(1927) (editions illustrated by Bold and 864:Walter de la Mare, Short Stories 1927โ€“1956 846:Walter de la Mare, Short Stories 1895โ€“1926 725: 145: 2098: 1786:(series title). Retrieved 18 August 2019. 1657:, Oxford University Press, 1995, p. 181. 965:(1924) (illustrated by Winifred Bromhall) 109:Learn how and when to remove this message 2194:Works by Walter de la Mare in eBook form 2151: 1864: 1573: 1422: 768:and Irene Hawkins ) (children's stories) 603: 599: 566: 540:"Crewe", "The Green Room" and "Winter". 332:De la Mare was born at 83, Maryon Road, 2265:Song: The Listeners (Walter de la Mare) 2107: 2080:Adrian, Jack, "De la Mare, Walter", in 1468:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 953:Down-Adown-Derry: A Book of Fairy Poems 628:, and the rest of the great poets lay. 428:, had lived. De la Mare won the annual 2330: 1606: 1604: 1407:Includes the poem itself and analysis. 1287: 1181: 1111:Some Women Novelists of the 'Seventies 2131:Seven Masters of Supernatural Fiction 2113:The Checklist of Fantastic Literature 1865:Chandran, K. Narayana (Spring 1997). 1135: 1027:Walter de la Mare: The Complete Poems 888: 808:The Best Stories of Walter de la Mare 590:described it as his favourite novel. 489:De la Mare was, notably, a writer of 455:, where he had once been a choirboy. 2378:Carnegie Medal in Literature winners 1707:. New York: Agathon Press. pp.  1678:. Scarecrow Press, 2005, pp. 104โ€“05. 1616:Discovering Classic Horror Fiction I 1309:used texts from de la Mare's story " 515:each contain several ghost stories. 47:adding citations to reliable sources 18: 2222:Works by or about Walter de la Mare 1992:(1968). 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London: Sidgwick & Jackson 1676:The A to Z of Fantasy Literature 1649:Julia Briggs, "Transitions", in 997:(1941) (editions illustrated by 915:(1913) (editions illustrated by 764:(1931) (editions illustrated by 372:. He left the company after Sir 263: 23: 2408:Deaths from coronary thrombosis 1995: 1980: 1969:William Barry Urquhart (1975). 1962: 1949: 1945:. Faber and Faber. p. 171. 1934: 1930:. Faber and Faber. p. 114. 1919: 1915:. Faber and Faber. p. 110. 1904: 1900:. 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