Walter de la Mare's poetry has not received the attention from serious critics that it deserves. It was his misfortune to live through and to be intellectually and poetically unaffected by the two movements in England that shaped the literary...

Walter de la Mare will be remembered chiefly as a poet and writer of children's verse, the two genres not always clearly distinguishable in his work. But until 1928 he was also a novelist and until the mid-1930s a short-story writer; he was an...

Walter de la Mare is remembered primarily for his stories and poems for children rather than for his writing for adults. In his own day he was compared to William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Edgar Allan Poe, but time has...

Walter de la Mare is better known as a poet and a writer for children than as an author of fantasy or science fiction, but much of the fiction he wrote is fantastic in nature. Within fantasy and horror fiction he is widely considered a figure of...

Better-known as a poet than as a novelist, Walter de la Mare nonetheless managed to craft several intriguing narratives that explore the conflict between the ordinary and the extraordinary. Despite the various labels attached to de la Mare--neoromantic...