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This monograph covers Walter de la Mare's poetry and prose works, revealing his complex and serious side. It concentrates on his master images: "The Cage"; "The Traveller";"The House"; "Paradise"; and the "Visionary Face". It also examines the writer's personality, technique, and influences. ... Read more

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This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery. ... Read more

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An Odyssey for Children
This is the most profound book that I read as a child -- the only one that could be compared in its greatness to Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass.In its imaginative, symbolic, and numinous depth it is one of the most unusual, striking books I have ever read.Through the nature of its story, its characters, its language, and the encounters that the characters have with multiple layers of human experience, it is an imaginative feat on the part of the author, Walter de la Mare (1873-1956).Originally published in 1910 as The Three Mulla-Mulgars, The Three Royal Monkeys is in effect an Odyssey for children, telling the story of how three monkey brothers undertake a long and arduous voyage encompassing multiple adventures and encounters with diverse, deep, and mysterious aspects of life in order to arrive at a paradise-like land from which their late father originated.The richness, vividness, and numinousness of the story is conveyed not only by its content but by its partially invented language.That is, the English is liberally sprinkled with names and words in the language that the monkeys themselves speak, so that it conveys the sense of being inside of a mysterious, far-away, magical, animal world that is at the same time human in its resonance:as a child I had the sense of being transported to a place where I intuited things and experiences that were way beyond my years.In a way this book would be beloved of Jungians because of the way it captures "archetypal" experience.I was fortunate to have had an uncle and aunt who always gave me and other members of my family special, unusual presents, and I consider myself so lucky that they gave me this book when I was eight years old, although I don't remember if I read it then or somewhat later.It is sad that it is currently out of print.I hope that other children will be similarly blessed by having this book given to them or made accessible through the library.

The Three Royal Monkeys: A Book That Should be Read by You
The Three Royal Monkeys is an old book- most little kids wouldn't want anything to do with it, but if you just read the first couple of pages, you'd fall in love with it. It's got a children's book idea, but it's written for older kids. It's kind of like Lord of the Rings- not the story line or anything. These simple little "mulla-mulgars" (monkeys) have magic, their father goes in search of Tishnar, his brother's kindom, and he doesn't return in seven mulla-mulgar years. So his three sons, Thumb, Thimble, and Nod go in search of Tishnar. They have interactions with Oogmars (humans) and learn how to speak their language. I'm a seventh grader, and I love it. I know some adults that love it. It's an enchanting book, you have to read it.

Poetic fantasy
If you like the Hobbit, you'll love this "children's" novel about three royal monkeys (or mulla-mulgars) who journey across a strangely wintery fantasy Africa so that they can live with their "Uncle Assasimmon, Prince of the Valleys of Tishnar". On the way, they encounter flesh-eating "minimuls," "mountain mulgars" who do battle with eagles, the deadly beast Immanala, a beautiful water-midden who tricks one of the mulgars and takes his magic "wonderstone", a lost "Oomgar" from England, and many other adventures. The tone of the writing is wonderfully poetic and evocative, the verbal equivalent of Arthur Rackham's paintings. It's a crime this novel isn't better known. ... Read more

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The Small Years was first published in June 1930 and printed three times in its first six months. In 1937 it was re-issued in a smaller pocket edition, and this went out of print during the war. This second edition, which was originally published in 1950, returned the text to its larger form. This is simply one man's account of what it meant to him to be a child - to be born and brought up at an unusual school in a remote and beautiful rurality; an account which, by all the evidence, clearly has power over its readers of inciting them to recover and live over again their own private memories of a great variety of childhoods. Mr Walter de la Mare's introduction to the first edition is retained, and the author's original map of the village is in its place once more. ... Read more

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:I SAW THREE WITCHESI SAW three witchesThat bowed down like barley, And straddled their brooms 'neath a louring sky,And, mounting a storm-cloud,Aloft on its margin, Stood black in the silver as up they did fly. I saw three witchesThat mocked the poor sparrows They carried in cages of wicker along,Till a hawk from his eyrieSwooped down like an arrow, Smote on the cages, and ended their song.I saw three witchesThat sailed in a shallop, All turning their heads with a snickering smile,Till a bank of green osiersConcealed their grim faces, Though I heard them lamenting for many a mile.I saw three witchesAsleep in a valley,SONGS OF CHILDHOOD: 1901Their heads in a row, like stones in a flood, Till the moon, creeping upward, Looked white through the valley, And turned them to bushes in bright scarlet bud.THE SILVER PENNY"sailorman, rn give to youMy bright silver penny, If out to sea you'll sail me And my dear sister Jenny." " Get in, young sir, I'll sail ye And your dear sister Jenny, But pay she shall her golden locks Instead of your penny."They sail away, they sail away, 0 fierce the winds blew! The foam flew in clouds, And dark the night grew! And all the wild sea-water Climbed steep into the boat; Back to the shore again Sail they will not. Drowned is the sailorman, Drowned is sweet Jenny, And drowned in the deep sea A bright silver penny. THE RAINBOWI SAW the lovely arch Of Rainbow span the sky, The gold sun burning As the rain swept by. In bright-ringed solitude The showery foliage shone One lovely moment, And the Bow was gone. THE FAIRIES DANCINGI HEARD along the early hills,Ere yet the lark was risen up, Ere yet the dawn with firelight fills Th... ... Read more

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I sang a song to Rosamond Rose Only the wind in the twilight knows I sang a song to Jeanetta Jennie, She flung from her window a silver penny I sang a song to Matilda May, She took to her heels and ran away I sang a song to Susannah Sue, She giggled the whole of the verses throughBut nevertheless, as sweet as I can, Ill sing a song to Elizabeth Ann - The same little Ann as there you see Smiling as happy as happy carn be. And all that my song is meant to say Is just what she did one long, lorg day,, With her own little self to play, with only, Yet ilever once felt the least bit latclg.Softly, drowsily, Out of sleep Into the world again Anns eyes peep Over the pictures Across the walls One little quivering Sunbeam falls. A thrush in the garden Seems to say, Wake, little Ann, Tis day, tis day Faint sweet breezes The casement stir, Breathing of pinks And lavender. At last from her pillow, With cheeks bright red, Up comes her round little TousIed head And out she tumbles From her warm bed. 5 Little birds hathe In the sunny dust. Whether the want Or not, they will. Seal and Walrus Arid Polar Bvar OIIV green icy Wash-tub share. Nor Hippopotamus ever His bath forgot. Out of his f1est The Elephant To squirt himself In his gloomy swamps. On crackling fins From thc deep sea fly Flying-fish into The air to dry. Silver Swans In shallows green Their dew-bespangled Pinions preen. And all day long Wash Duck and Drake In their duckweed pond - For washings salce. SO, in her lonesome, Slippety, bare, Elizabeth Anns Splash - splashing there And now from the watery Waves amonje Stands slooshing herself With that enormous sponge. ... Read more

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A collection of retold Bible stories from the first nine books of the Old Testament, from the Garden of Eden to David and Goliath. ... Read more

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A work of art
This book is so beautiful - I wish it was back in print!I paid too much for a ratty old copy, but I'm glad I did.
Edward Ardizzone is one of my favorite illustrators and he doesn't disappoint here.
I was not familiar with Walter de la Mare, but his writing is beautiful.He adds a lot to the stories, but it doesn't feel forced or artificial.And he picks some stories I did not know (and I really thought I knew them pretty well!).
The language may be a little complicated for my 6th-graders, but it is so beautiful that I think I will read them aloud so it can at least wash over them.This is a poet's voice, not an encyclopedia's, so I don't know what I would leave out. ... Read more

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These eight tales of fantasy are from Walter de la Mare's "Collected Stories for Children". ... Read more

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Publisher: H. Holt and CompanyPublication date: 1922Description: Charming collection of fairy poems by Walter de la Mare featuring more than 60 illustrations by Caldecott Medal winning artist Dorothy Lathrop.Subjects: Fairy talesJuvenile Nonfiction / Poetry / GeneralJuvenile Fiction / Fairy Tales ... Read more

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'The most compelling of anthologies, the most leisurely, and the most complete' - "Observer". First published in 1923, the conception of de la Mare's collection of poetry and prose 'for the young of all ages' had been in the poet's mind for some time. He wanted it to transcend the ordinary anthology, to have real unity and to be a true introduction to poetry. The result was, in its time, a completely original book, personal and creative - pervaded by his own company throughout. "Come Hither" takes its unity from de la Mare's introduction, an allegorical prose fable, the subtle and playful references of which are echoed throughout the proceeding collection. The anthology's ecstatic variety, where 'unofficial poetry', such as counting-out rhymes, appear on equal terms alongside Keats' Odes, suggests a relation between childhood and poetry that is at once serious and radiantly spontaneous. Together with the children's literature aspect, it also provides a selection of the leading Georgian poets and is arguably the best account of their 'hinterland', documenting their prevailing thematic concerns alongside a selection of their predecessors. ... Read more

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"Peacock Pie" first appeared in 1913 and this new edition contains the complete and revised text. The book is illustrated with subtle colour illustrations and mysterious black and white vignettes by the young artist Louise Brierley. It brings the world of Walter de la Mere to a new generation. ... Read more