Walter De la Mare
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Description
Walter de la Mare was a poet, short-story writer and novelist, whose best-known work remains his poetry for children, though his ghost stories have long been highly regarded.
Books
Peacock pie, a book of rhymes
Peacock Pie presents an extensive selection of de la Mare's best poetry, in thematically themes sections such as are "Up and Down," "Boys and Girls," "Three Queer Tales," "Places and People," "Beasts," "Witches and Fairies," "Earth and Air," and "Songs."
Ghost Stories
The three royal monkeys, or the three mulla-mulgars
Story of how three monkey brothers undertake a long and arduous voyage encompassing multiple adventures and encounters with diverse, deep, and mysterious aspects of life in order to arrive at a paradise-like land from which their late father originated.
The Poetry of Cats
This is a unique celebration of that most beautiful and self-possessed of creatures--the cat. More than 50 poems are included, reflecting every feline mood: the comic, the aristocratic, the lazy, the cunning, the fierce, the inscrutable. Lovers of cats and lovers of poetry will be delighted by the wide-ranging nature of the collection by poets such as T.S. Elliot, Ted Hughes, W.B. Yeats, William Wordsworth, Edward Lear and many others. One of the most attractive features of the book is the choice of pictures. A stunning selection of drawings and paintings by such artists and illustrators as Renoir, Manet, Picasso, Hogarth, Cruikshank and Lear add to the charm of the verse, making this a book to be treasured by cat lovers everywhere.
Selected poems
The Dark Descent
pt. 1. The color of evil. The reach / Stephen King -- Evening primrose / John Collier -- The ash-tree / M.R. James -- The new mother / Lucy Clifford -- There's a long, long trail a-winding / Russell Kirk -- The call of Cthulhu / H.P. Lovecraft -- The summer people / Shirley Jackson -- The whimper of whipped dogs / Harlan Ellison -- [Young Goodman Brown]( / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Mr. Justice Harbottle -- J. Sheridan Le Fanu -- The crowd / Ray Bradbury -- The autopsy / Michael Shea -- John Charrington's wedding / E. Nesbit -- Sticks / Karl Edward Wagner -- Larger than oneself / Robert Aickman -- Belsen Express / Fritz Leiber -- Yours truly, Jack the Ripper / Robert Bloch -- If Damon comes / Charles L. Grant -- Vandy, Vandy / Manly Wade Wellman -- pt. 2. The Medusa in the shield. The swords / Robert Aickman -- The roaches / Thomas M. Disch -- Bright segment / Theodore Sturgeon -- Dread / Clive Barker -- The fall of the house of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe -- The monkey / Stephen King -- Within the walls of Tyre / Michael Bishop -- The rats in the walls / H.P. Lovecraft -- Schalken the painter / J. Sheridan Le Fanu -- The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- A rose for Emily / William Faulkner -- How love came to Professor Guildea / Robert Hichens -- Born of man and woman / Richard Matheson -- My dear Emily / Joanna Russ -- You can go now / Dennis Etchison -- The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence -- Three days / Tanith Lee -- Good country people / Flannery O'Connor -- Mackintosh Willy / Ramsey Campbell -- The jolly corner / Henry James -- pt. 3. A fabulous formless darkness. Smoke ghost / Fritz Leiber -- Seven American nights / Gene Wolfe -- The signal-man / Charles Dickens -- [Crouch End]( / Stephen King -- Night-side / Joyce Carol Oates -- Seaton's aunt / Walter de la Mare -- Clara Militch / Ivan Turgenev -- The repairer of reputations / Robert W. Chambers -- The beckoning fair one / Oliver Onions -- What was it? / Fitz-James O'Brien -- The beautiful stranger / Shirley Jackson -- [The damned thing]( / Ambrose Bierce -- Afterward / Edith Wharton -- The willows / Algernon Blackwood -- The Asian shore / Thomas M. Disch -- The hospice / Robert Aickman -- A little something for us tempunauts / Philip K. Dick.
The magic jacket
Includes several short stories: "The Magic Jacket", "The Scarecrow", "Maria-Fly", "Alice's Godmother", "The Old Lion", "Miss Jemima", "The Riddle", "Lucy", "Visitors" and "Broomsticks". The Magic Jacket: a benevolent admiral gives the jacket which had brought him luck and success to a young pavement artist The Scarecrow: an elderly man tells his niece of the time he saw a fairy perching on a scarecrow Alice's Godmother: Alice's ancient godmother offers to share the secret of her long life The Maria-Fly: Maria has an unusual experience with a fly, but none of the people she tells about it understand what she felt The Old Lion: in Africa a sailor is given an extraordinary monkey who becomes a phenomenal success on the stage in London Miss Jemima: an old lady tells her granddaughter about the time long ago when she was very nearly enticed away by a fairy The Riddle: some children play with an old wooden chest although they have been warned to stay away Lucy: three aging sisters fall on hard times but the youngest finds she prefers her new life Visitors: Tom sees some strange birds which change his life Broomsticks: an old lady becomes suspicious of her beloved cat
Come hither
Poetry anthology for children, first published in 1923. Poems by Blake, Tennyson, Wordsworth, others. Beautiful flip-book edition. | THE EAGLE - HE clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ringed with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls. ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
Bells and grass
A collection of the author's favorite poems he has written for children. "Some of them tell of actual and personal memories. Most of them, whether fanciful or not, are concerned with the imagined and the imaginary." Introd.
Animal Stories
A collection of fifty-nine animal tales and essays by writers including Aesop, Rudyard Kipling, and Washington Irving.