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

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or writte ...

and

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. He was born in

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, and educated at

Woodhouse Grove School Woodhouse Grove School ('The Grove') is an independent, co-educational, day and boarding public school and Sixth Form. it is located to the north of Apperley Bridge, West Yorkshire, England (Apperley Bridge is located in the City of Bradfor ...

Birmingham University , mottoeng = Through efforts to heights , established = 1825 – Birmingham School of Medicine and Surgery1836 – Birmingham Royal School of Medicine and Surgery1843 – Queen's College1875 – Mason Science College1898 – Mason Univers ...

and

Bonn University The Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (german: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) is a public research university located in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the ( en, Rhine ...

. 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 Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong (29 June 1912 – 23 September 1970), better known as John Gawsworth (and also sometimes known as T. I. F. Armstrong), was a British writer, poet and compiler of anthologies, both of poetry and of short stories. He ...

. He introduced

C. S. Lewis Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) was a British writer and Anglican lay theologian. He held academic positions in English literature at both Oxford University (Magdalen College, 1925–1954) and Cambridge Univers ...

and

Ruth Pitter Emma Thomas "Ruth" Pitter, Order of the British Empire, CBE, Royal Society of Literature, FRSL (7 November 1897 – 29 February 1992) was a British poet. She was the first woman to receive the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1955, and was appoi ...

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)

Faber and Faber Faber and Faber Limited, usually abbreviated to Faber, is an independent publishing house in London. Published authors and poets include T. S. Eliot (an early Faber editor and director), W. H. Auden, Margaret Storey, William Golding, Samuel B ...

, 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 The Harry Ransom Center (until 1983 the Humanities Research Center) is an archive, library and museum at the University of Texas at Austin, specializing in the collection of literary and cultural artifacts from the Americas and Europe for the pur ...

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