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.

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Works

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 Season in the Desert (1946) poems