Songs of Childhood

by Walter De la Mare

Anthony Hecht

ANTHONY HECHT teaches in the English Department of the University of Rochester. He is the author of several books of poetry, of which the most recent are The Hard Hours (1967) and Aesopic (1968). His poems appear in many anthologies and he has contributed to the Hudson Review, the New York Review of Books, Quarterly Review of Literature, and other periodicals. He also translated (with Helen H. Bacon) Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes (1973).

WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956)

Bibliography of His Books for Children
(Poetry):

• Songs of Childhood. London 1902.
• A Child's Day: a Book of Rhymes to Pictures by C. W. Cadby. London 1912.
• Peacock Pie: a Book of Rhymes. London 1913.
• Down-adown-derry: a Book of Fairy Poems. London 1922.
• Stuff and Nonsense. London 1927.
• Poems for Children. London [1930].
• This Year, Next Year. London 1937.
• Bells and Grass. London 1941.
• Collected Rhymes and Verses. London 1944.

Bibliography of His Books for Children
(Stories, Plays):

• The Three Mulla-mulgars. London 1910.
• Crossings; a Fairy Play, with Music by E. A. Gibbs. London 1921.
• Story and Rhyme. London 1921.
• Broomsticks and Other Tales. London 1925.
• Miss Jemima. Oxford [1925].
• Told Again: Traditional Tales. Oxford 1927.
• Readings: Traditional Tales 1925-1928. Oxford 1928.
• Old Joe. Oxford [1927].
• Stories from the Bible. London 1929.
• The Lord Fish and Other Tales. London [1933].
• The Old Lion and Other Stories. London 1942.
• The Magic Jacket and Other Stories. London 1943.
• The Scarecrow and Other Stories. London 1944.
• The Dutch Cheese and Other Stories. London 1946.
• Collected Stories for Children. London 1947.

Selected References:

• Atkins, John W. H. Walter de la Mare: an Exploration. London [1947].
• Clark, L. Walter de la Mare (a Bodley monograph). London 1960.
• McCrosson, D. R. Walter de la Mare. New York 1966.

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