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Rhymes and Verses: Collected Poems for Young People

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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!

This book is a collection of most (but not all) of Walter de la Mare's charming childhood poetry. There are very sweet illustrations, and the book was in great quality (I bought it used). A wonderful book for my collection of children's books and poetry books.

I purchased this book mainly to be able to read some of my old favourite poems to my young grandchildren. Previously I had been reciting the poems from memory and the kids were so attentive. I thought that the book would have some nice illustrations to go with the poems -as I remembered from my old school readers. Sadly there are very few illustrations in this book and they are black and white. I kept the book thinking that the kids might still like to hear the poetry- but when i tried to read it to them recently, they kept asking for pictures to "show the story". Anyways, now i am stuck with it and it will sit on the bookshelf.
Too much money for such a book.
I am disappointed.