Herbert Edward Palmer
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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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- 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
