New Releases by Walter de la Mare

An anthology of poems for children.

This is the second of a three-volume collection bringing together Walter de la Mare''s short stories. It includes On the Edge (1930), The Wind Blows Over (1936), and A Beginning and Other Stories (1955), as well as four uncollected stories and four unpublished stories. The one-day conference featuring the stories of Walter de la Mare at King''s College, University of London, coinciding with the publication of Volume One in November 1996 revealed the intense interest there is in his fiction. It was attended by some 35 people from around Britain, and the talks and discussion were extremely lively. Among the speakers were Professor John Bayley, Professor Julia Briggs and Russell Hoban.

A young man believes that his sweetheart and her family are the silliest people in the world, until he meets three others who are even sillier.

Complementing his Collected Poems, this volume gathers together all Walter de la Mare''s poems for children. The book includes what, for the adult, are among his greatest pure lyrics. His descriptions of birds, beasts and natural phenomena are judged particularly sharp and accurate.

A solitary, brooding boy, crippled by an accident when he was very young, sees two marvelous white birds in a spring meadow and feels his life begin to change.

Poems written to appeal to the young in mind.

A collection of rhymes and poems for the young of all ages.

A collection of studies in the atmosphere of strangeness which has a haunting and elusive quality.