Herbert Edward Palmer
Herbert Edward Palmer (Elliott & Fry, late 1930s)
Herbert Edward Palmer (10 February 1880 – 17 May 1961) was an English poet and literary critic.[1][2]
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
Notes
- ↑ George Watson; Ian R. Willison (1969). The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. CUP Archive. pp. clxxxiii. GGKEY:64CF45KC7C0.
- ↑ "Herbert Edward Palmer, McMaster Libraries". Retrieved 15 December 2015.
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- Herbert Palmer papers at Senate House Library, University of London
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