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Walter de la Mare was born in Charlton in Kent on April 25, 1873. Born to James Edward and Lucy Sophie de la Mare. He was educated at St. Paul's Cathedral Choir School in London. It was at St. Paul's that young de la Mare began his journey as a life long writer. At sixteen years of age he founded the school's first magazine called The Choristers Journal and de la Mare contributed much of his own work for the first few volumes of the magazine (McCrosson 12). Unable to go on to college, he left school to join with the company Standard Oil Company as their bookkeeper (Fleischmann 276). He stayed with the company for nineteen years. De la Mare married in 1899 to a girl named Constance Elfrida Igpen. The couple settled in and had four children two girls and two boys (McCrosson 12). In 1895 he was published in The Sketch, this was the first time being published since his school magazine venture (McCrosson 12). Walter de la Mare's first short story was published in the Cornhill Magazine in 1896. There was an introductory note stating that the readers "could hardly fail to think that the spirit of A.E. Poe is once more abroad" (Fleischmann 276). In 1908 de la M
this through his work. The poem 'De Profundis', You will not wish to see your face in a mirror; And a footstep came to my door and stopped, Fleischmann, Wolfgang Bernard.ed. Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century.vol1. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co. Keeps with a strange unanswering smile Although there are other themes in his work these two, death and children, seem to stand out more than others. They are prominently woven throughout his works. It is what makes Walter de la Mare a force to be recognized in the literary circles of study. I believe that people are going to bring his name into more of a prominent place in the future. In the last two lines there is the element of frustration coming out. It is as though de la Mare is trying to get the dead to tell the secrets that we have a right to know. After all we will end up "beneath the yew" eventually.
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