a joy!

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	• Rhymes and Verses: Collected Poems for Young People Walter de la Mare Henry Holt and Co. (BYR), 2002 - 370 pages average customer review:based on 1 review view larger image
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a joy!

I discovered the work of Walter de la Mare poem by poem. Reading through anthologies, I picked poems I liked, and often found his name at the bottom of them. I recently bought this anthology, which puts together several of his earlier volumes of poetry for young people. Young, I think, is any age under 130. I am 42 years young, and love the magic de la Mare makes with language.
Highly recommended!

A beloved classic of children?s poetry?Only the rarest kind of best in anything can be good enough for the young,? wrote Walter de la Mare, and this handsome reissue of Rhymes and Verses, an anthology of all his poems for children, does indeed offer the ?rarest kind of best? to a new generation of young people.De la Mare?s verse recaptures the direct appeal of the nursery rhyme in poems of amazing variety, poems marked by charm and freshness and an irresistible rhythmic force and immediacy. They should be part of every child?s reading experience.

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