Masters Theses

Author Unknown.  "The Poetry of Walter de la Mare."  University of Western Australia, 1965.

Fleming, Barbara M.  "Talismans for the Imagination: A Critical Examination of the Poetry, Tales, Novels, Literary Criticism, and Anthologies of Walter de la Mare."  Canisius College, 1956.

Fox, Martha Corinne.  "Walter de la Mare's use of Fantasy in The Memoirs of a Midget."  University of Texas, 1938.

Harbin, Katherine.  "Studies in the Poetry of Walter de la Mare."  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1933.

Knight, Wallace E.  "A Study of the Relationship Between the Prose Tales and Poetry of Walter de la Mare."  Ohio University, 1950.

Manly, Emily Janet.  "A Study of Imagery in the Poetry of Walter de la Mare."  Duke University, 1957.

McCarthy, Anna May.  "Walter de la Mare: A Bibliography with a Critical Introduction." State University of New York at Buffalo, 1939.

Morrison, Eleanor L.  "An Analysis of Walter de la Mare's Concept of the World of Childhood."  University of Rhode Island, 1967.

Olsen, Dorothy Ann.  "The Terrible Vision of Walter de la Mare."  Bowling Green State University, 1969.

A study of selected lyrics shows that while de la Mare suggests a world beyond this one, he is too afraid to enter that realm.  This is the element of terror that appears so much in his poetry and fiction. Shows the relation of de la Mare's imagery to the Jung's collective unconscious.

Polack, Mary Elizabeth.  "The Relation of Poetry to Prose Noted in the Works of Walter de la Mare and James Stephens," Washington University 1934.

Ramer, John Richard.  "A Critical Study of the Short Stories of Walter de la Mare."  University of Missouri, 1953.

Whalley, C.C.  "The Prose Works of Walter de la Mare, 1873-1956."  University of Birmingham, 1975/76.

Wood, Charles Aubrey.  "A Critical Examination of the Poetry of Walter de la Mare, with Special Reference to the Poetry of 1902-1913."  University of London, 1967.