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Name
  
Herbert Palmer

Died
  
May 17, 1961

Role
  
Poet

Education
  
University of Bonn

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Books
  
The Roving Angler, Post-Victorian Poetry

Herbert Edward Palmer (10 February 1880 – 17 May 1961) was an English poet and literary critic.

He was born in Market Rasen, Lincolnshire and educated at Woodhouse Grove School, Birmingham University and Bonn University. Before becoming a full-time writer and journalist in 1921, he led an itinerant life in teaching, tutoring and lecturing, working in particular for the W.E.A.; and spending many years in France and Germany.

He encouraged the young John Gawsworth. He introduced C. S. Lewis and Ruth Pitter in 1945/6.

Works

  • Two Fishers (1918)
  • Two Foemen (1920)
  • Two Minstrels (1921)
  • The Unknown Warrior (1924)
  • Songs of Salvation, Sin and Satire (1925)
  • The Judgement of Francois Villon (1927) play
  • The Teaching of English (1930)
  • Cinder Thursday (1931)
  • Collected Poems (1933)
  • The Roving Angler (1933) essays
  • Summit and Chasm (1934) poems
  • The Mistletoe Child (1935) autobiography
  • The Vampire (1936)
  • Post-Victorian Poetry (1938) criticism
  • The Gallows Cross (1940)
  • Season and Festival (1943) Faber and Faber, poems
  • A Sword in the Desert (1946) poems
  • References

    Herbert Edward Palmer Wikipedia