Some topics just call out for “old-fashioned” poetry – the kind that rhymes, and tells a story. Fairies are right up there on that list of themes.
Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) – prolific English poet, and fiction author, best remembered for his poem “The Listeners,” the title poem in a collection which won the 1947 Carnegie medal for children’s books. He published 13 collections of poetry.
Walter de la Mare wrote hundreds of wonderful old-fashioned poems, which were very popular in his early-to-middle years. His poem “The Listeners” still appears in many anthologies, but most of his other poems are waiting to be discovered by a new audience.
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