id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-9511 Walter de la Mare - Wikipedia .html text/html 3704 435 74 Walter John de la Mare OM CH (/ˈdɛləˌmɛər/;[1] 25 April 1873 – 22 June 1956) was an English poet, short story writer, and novelist. He is probably best remembered for his works for children, for his poem "The Listeners",[2] and for a highly acclaimed selection of subtle psychological horror stories, amongst them "Seaton's Aunt" and "All Hallows". In 1921, his novel Memoirs of a Midget won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction,[3] and his post-war Collected Stories for Children won the 1947 Carnegie Medal for British children's books.[4] The new family lived in Beckenham and Anerley from 1899 till 1924.[6] It was in Beckenham at Mackenzie Road that the children were born; his first book of poems, Songs of Childhood, published (under the name Walter Ramal); and Henry Brocken written. ^ Walter de la Mare (on Wikisource), The Ghost (anthologized in Collected poems, 1901-1918 and Motley). ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9511.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9511.txt