Dissertations

Bentinck, Ann.  "Walter de la Mare: A Study of His Poetry."  University of Edinburgh, 1984.

Bremser, Martha.  "The Poetry of Walter de la Mare." Oxford University, 1986.

Degan, James Nerhood.  "The Short Fiction of Walter de la Mare." University of Iowa, 1982.

Graham, Eileen P.  "Walter de la Mare and Dream Poetry,"  Columbia University, 1951.

Griffiths, Joe.  "The Poetry of Walter de la Mare."  University of Liverpool, 1983.

Jarkas, Najla,  "The Timeless Mote: An Approach to the Poetic Sensibility of Walter de la Mare."  University of Reading, 1991.

Le Vey, John.  "The DelaMarean Other World."  University of York, Toronto, 1984.

Loges, Mary Kaiser.  "The Poetry of Walter de la Mare: A Re-valuation."  University of Denver, 1985.

Poe, Lorraine.  "The Imaginative World of Walter de la Mare."  Columbia University, 1949.

Reed-Walsh, Jacqueline.  "The Burning Glass:  A Developmental Study of Walter de la Mare's poetry," McGill University, 1988.

McCrosson, Doris Ross.  "The Novels of Walter de la Mare." University of Pennsylvania, 1959.

Smith, Richard T.S.  "Walter de la Mare (1873 to 1956) A Critical Study."  University of Wales, 1980.

Murphy, Michael William.  "The British Tale in the Early Twentieth Century:  Walter de la Mare, A.E. Coppard, and T.E. Powys."  University of Wisconsin, 1971.

Sullivan, William Lawrence. "The Use of the Supernatural in the Prose Fiction of Walter de la Mare."  Boston University, 1952.

The best study of de la Mare's use of the supernatural.  After a brief survey of the supernatural in literature as a whole, moves to a review of de la Mare criticism and his own literary criticism.  Covers the use of the supernatural in his early prose, his novels, and his short stories his technique, characterization, and style.  A final chapter compares de la Mare's supernaturalism to that of authors Arthur Machen, M.R. James, Algernon Blackwood, Lord Dunsany, and A.E. Coppard.

Vermeulen, Marc.  "The Unknown Walter de la Mare: Introduction to His Letters." Gent, Rijksuniversiteit, 1979.

Whalley, Corinne.  "The Prose Works of Walter de la Mare." University of Birmingham, 1975.

Wood, Charles Aubrey.  "A Variorum Edition of Songs of Childhood." University of London, 1971.

Woodward, Steven.  "Marbles and Tops: The Reputation of Walter de la Mare." University of Toronto, 2001.