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 Walter de la Mare : 

Walter de la Mare also is known as Walter John de la Mare ( 25 April 1873 - 22 June 1956 ) was an English poet, Short story writer, and also a novelist. He is probably best remembered for his poem " The Listeners " and for a highly acclaimed selection of subtle psychological horror stories such as " All Hallows ". 

Walter de la Mare was the prolific author of many volumes of poetry, short stories, and novels including one of the most enduringly popular poems in the world that was " The Listeners ". Born in Charlton, Kent he was educated at St Paul Cathedral Choir School in London. He married in 1899 and had four children and for many years he struggled to balance the life of a writer in spite of managing the financial demands of his family. until in 1908, he received a civil list of pension which enabled him to put more concentration on his profession of writing. He wrote his first book which was a collection of poems called " Songs Of Childhood" and was publicly published in 1902. He had a privileged childhood, a time of unique vision uncontaminated by adult perceptions,  and he remained throughout his career a keen and successful writer of poems for children. In a lecture on Rupert Brooke, he described children as " Contemplatives and Solitaries who sink again and again out of the noise and fever of existence and into a waking vision". In his own writing de la Mare has tried to reawaken the vision which accounts for the yearning tone of much of his poetry. 

His archive poem "Thomas Hardy", celebrates a visit made to de la Mare's house, Max gate in Dorset in 1921 Hardy was an important influence on de la Mare;'s sensibility and for his part, Hardy esteemed the younger writer so much that a few days before he died Hardy asked him to read " The Listeners" and commented that it must be the finest poem of the century. 

their friendship began through correspondence and was deepened by eventual meetings and subsequent encounters. This poem published after ten years if Hardy's death shows a characteristic movement in de la Mare's poetry away from external realities to inward vision. 

* Other Writings By Walter de la Mare : 

1. Silver Poem

2. The Listeners 

3. Poem Farewell  

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