Wilfred Rowland Childe

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Wilfred Rowland Childe (1890 - 1952) was a British poet and critic. He was educated at Harrow School and Magdalen College, Oxford. He edited Oxford Poetry in 1916 and 1917. He became a Roman Catholic convert in 1916.

His Selected Poems was published in 1936. He associated with the Sitwells, but was no modernist; he has been described as almost too Georgian to be true.

[edit] Works

  • The Little City (1911)
  • The Gothic Rose (1922)
  • Ivory Palaces (1925)
  • Blue Distance (1930) travel writing
  • The Golden Thurible
  • The Garland of Armor
  • Selected Poems (1936)
  • The Blessèd Pastures (1950)
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