For the songs he set poems to music and sang them, verses by W . E . Henley, Walter de la Mare and other well-known poets, and particularly the Australian-born poet Vicki Raymond.
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Eleanor Farjeon was above all a poet, but from the 1920s onward she effectively used poetic language and fancy in creating literary but homely fairy tales for children, as did her fellow poet, Walter de la Mare.
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On a chilly afternoon in a red church in woodsy Occidental, the sweet, clear voices of the Occidental Community Choir sang an adaptation of the poem " Silver " by the English poet Walter de la Mare.
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The Georgian poets like Rupert Brooke, Walter de la Mare ( 1873 1956 ) and John Masefield ( 1878 1967, Poet Laureate from 1930 ) maintained a more conservative approach to poetry by combining romanticism, sentimentality and hedonism.
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He is also a noted writer of short fiction that has been acclaimed for its eerie, strange qualities that have drawn comparison with the macabre wit of Saki and the supernatural fiction of Henry James and Walter de la Mare.
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While remaining home with the children, Margery Bianco gained hope and inspiration from the works of the poet she called her " spiritual mentor ", Walter de la Mare, who she felt truly understood the mindset of children.
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In one volume produced by the school in 1935, entitled " Songs of Enchantment ", the pupils were successful in convincing the famous poet Walter de la Mare to write a foreword in which he praised their enterprise and efforts.
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In 1920 she retired from the stage and in 1922 from film, although she returned to play Susan Wildersham in Walter de la Mare's fairy play, " Crossings ", in November 1925 at the Lyric Hammersmith.
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Between 1965 and 1975 Chesley composed the music to over five dozen songs and choral works, chiefly to texts by poets such as Emily Dickinson, Willa Cather, James Agee, Walter de la Mare, Gertrude Stein and Walt Whitman.
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Walter de la Mare, primarily a poet, published several short books of such stories for children in the 1920s and 1930s, and the best of his tales were brought together in his " Collected Stories for Children ."
