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In this new selection from the poetry of Walter de la Mare (the first of its kind for fifty years), Matthew Sweeney draws on the full range of his published work, from Poems (1906) to O Lovely England (1953), and includes a generous selection of the poems and rhymes for children.
'From his children and ghosts one learns little about children and nothing about ghosts, but one learns a great deal of the reality of which both his ghosts and his children are projections, of the wishes and lacks and love that have produced their "unreality" [...] His best poems are full of personal distinction, the involuntary individuality that are marks of a real poet.' - Randall Jarrell
'His most obvious virtues, those which no reader can fail to see immediately, are verbal and formal, the delicacy of his metrical fingering and the graceful architecture of his stanzas.' - W.H. Auden
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Walter de la Mare was born on April the 25th, 1873 in Charlton, Kent. He attended St. Paul's Cathedral Choir School, London before working for the Anglo-American (Standard) Oil Company in London as a clerk in the department of statistics, between the years 1890 and 1908. Subsequently, de la Mare was able to concentrate on writing full-time thanks to the offer of a government pension. The Listeners and Other Poems, published in 1912, established his reputation, and his best-known children's book, Peacock Pie appeared in 1913. He received many awards for his stories, poetry and criticism, including the Order of Merit in 1953. He died in 1956 and is buried at St. Paul's Cathedral, London.
Matthew Sweeney was born in Co Donegal, Ireland in 1952. He lived for many years in London and has lately been spending time in Romania and Germany. He has published a number of books of poetry and his most recent collection is Sanctuary (Cape, 2004). He also writes poetry and fiction for children - including Up on the Roof: New & Selected Poems (Faber, 2001), and a novel, Fox (Bloomsbury, 2002). A German translation of the latter came out from Berlin Verlag in October 2003, while books of poems in translation have appeared over the last few years in Romania, Mexico, Latvia and Slovakia, with further books in progress in Holland, Germany, Italy and Japan. A co-author of Writing Poetry (Hodder, 1997 - updated 2003), Matthew is also an editor of several anthologies, including The New Faber Book of Children's Poems (Faber, 2001).
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