Similarly, the 1955 Carnegie Medal was considered a recognition of Eleanor Farjeon's contribution to children's literature as a whole, echoing the 1947 award to Walter de la Mare for " Collected Stories for Children ".
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Meantime, Joseph's works were being performed at SWM concerts : two songs, probably from her " Mirage " cycle, in January 1920, and some of her settings of Walter de la Mare poems in December.
43.
Douglas A . Anderson noted in a Foreword to a later edition of " Written With My Left Hand " that Barker ranks alongside fellow twentieth-century exponents of the strange story, Walter de la Mare and John Metcalfe.
44.
Walter de la Mare's poem " The Linnet ", published in 1918 in the collection " Motley and Other Poems ", has been set to music by a number of composers including Cecil Armstrong Gibbs, Kenneth Leighton and Jack Gibbons.
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Intended to be populist in tone, contributions came from Sidney Sime, Robert Graves, Herbert Furst, Laura Knight, Frank Brangwyn, Glyn Philpot, Edith Sitwell, Walter de la Mare, J . F . C . Fuller and Havelock Ellis.
46.
The initial names on the appeal show the general recognition of Machen's stature as a distinguished man of letters, as they included Max Beerbohm, T . S . Eliot, Bernard Shaw, Walter de la Mare, Algernon Blackwood, and John Masefield.
47.
Roger Lancelyn Green described Walter de la Mare's stories as having a strong but very particular appeal : " These strange, homely tales of wonder captivate a limited audience and are frequently foisted on children by adults who have fallen under their very real spell.
48.
He was a close friend of Walter de la Mare, whom he first met in 1913, and about whose fiction he published a perceptive book in 1929 . Reid was also an influence on novelist Stephen Gilbert, and had good connections to the Bloomsbury Group of writers.
49.
Among the more notable individuals quoted in the novel are scientist Giuseppe Cocconi, poet Kirby Congdon, Walter de la Mare, scientist Freeman J . Dyson, futurist and economist Herman Kahn, poet Alice Meynell, scientist and author Carl Sagan, and poet William Butler Yeats.
50.
For an audience spoiled with the works of Theodore Sturgeon, Walter de la Mare, John Collier, Roald Dahl, E . F . Benson, Edgar Allan Poe, and Lord Dunsany, Bradbury's fantasy was nothing new, and got nothing more than polite nods.
