Herbert Edward Palmer

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Herbert Edward Palmer (Elliott & Fry, late 1930s)

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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Name	Palmer, Herbert Edward
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Short description	British writer
Date of birth	10 February 1880
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Date of death	17 May 1961
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