Herbert Edward Palmer (10 February 1880 – 17 May 1961) was an English poet and

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. He was born in Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, and educated at Woodhouse Grove School, Birmingham University and

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. 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

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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 *''Christmas Miniature'' (1928) *''The Armed Muse'' (1930) *''The Teaching of English'' (1930) *''Cinder Thursday'' (1931) *''What the Public Wants'' (1932) Blue Moon booklet *''Collected Poems'' (1933) *''The Roving Angler'' (1933) essays, revised edition 1947 *''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)

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, poems *''The Dragon of Tingalam: a fairy comedy'' (1945) *''A Sword in the Desert'' (1946) poems *''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)

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External links

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Herbert Palmer papers at Senate House Library, University of LondonThe Roving Angler by Herbert Palmer

Herbert Edward Palmer Collection
at the Harry Ransom Center {{DEFAULTSORT:Palmer, Herbert Edward 1880 births 1961 deaths People from Market Rasen People educated at Woodhouse Grove School University of Bonn alumni English male poets 20th-century English poets 20th-century English male writers