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Herbert Edward Palmer

Herbert Edward Palmer
Herbert Edward Palmer (Elliott & Fry, late 1930s)
Herbert Edward Palmer (Elliott & Fry, late 1930s)
Born(1880-02-10)10 February 1880
Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, UK
Died17 May 1961(1961-05-17) (aged 81)
OccupationPoet, literary critic
Alma materWoodhouse Grove School
Birmingham University
Bonn University

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, and other poems (1918)
  • Two Foemen, and other poems (1920)
  • Two Minstrels: the Wolf Knight, his book; The Wolf Minstrel, Caedmon's Book (1921)
  • The Unknown Warrior, and other poems (1924)
  • Songs of Salvation, Sin and Satire (1925)
  • The Judgement of François Villon: a pageant-episode play in five acts (1927)
  • Christmas Miniature (1928)
  • The Armed Muse: poems (1930)
  • Jonah Comes To Nineveh: A Ballad (1930)
  • The Teaching of English (1930)
  • Cinder Thursday (1931)
  • Thirty Poems (1931)
  • What the Public Wants (1932) Blue Moon booklet
  • Collected Poems (1933)
  • The Roving Angler (1933) essays, revised edition 1947
  • Summit and Chasm: a book of poems and rimes (1934)
  • The Mistletoe Child: an autobiography of childhood (1935)
  • The Vampire, and other poems and rimes of a pilgrim's progress (1936)
  • Post-Victorian Poetry (1938) criticism
  • The Gallows-Cross: a book of songs and verses for the times (1940)
  • Season and Festival (1943) Faber and Faber, poems
  • The Dragon of Tingalam: a fairy comedy (1945)
  • A Sword in the Desert: a book of poems and verses for the present times (1946)
  • The Greenwood Anthology of New Verse (1948), compiled by Palmer
  • The Old Knight: a poem-sequence for the present times (1949)
  • The Ride from Hell: a poem-sequence of the times for three voices (1958)

Notes

  1. ^ George Watson; Ian R. Willison (1969). The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. CUP Archive. pp. clxxxiii. GGKEY:64CF45KC7C0.
  2. ^ "Herbert Edward Palmer, McMaster Libraries". Retrieved 15 December 2015.
Quelle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Edward_Palmer