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British novelist and poet, loosely connected with the literary tradition of Wordsworth and Coleridge. De la Mare's reputation as a poet was established by the volume THE LISTENERS AND OTHER POEMS (1912). Vita Sackville-West once called him a "poet of dusk". De la Mare wrote for both children and adults. His best-known novel is MEMOIRS OF A MIDGET (1921), which described sympathetically the world of the minute Miss M. or Miss Thomasina. The book won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1922.