Herbert Edward Palmer

Herbert Edward Palmer

Herbert Edward Palmer (10 February 1880 - 17 May 1961) was an English poet and 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 François 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


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