Robert (or Robin) Noble Denison Wilson, known as R. N. D. Wilson (1899 – January 1953) was an Irish

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 ...

. From 1934 to 1944 he was a teacher at

Rendcomb College Rendcomb College is a public school (English independent day and boarding school for pupils aged 13–18), located in the village of Rendcomb five miles north of Cirencester in Gloucestershire, England. Rendcomb College was founded in 1920 ...

. His published work includes the collection ''The Holy Wells of Orris and other poems'' (London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1927), the style of which has been described as "early Yeatsian romanticism". Austin Clarke, while agreeing that the book was too much influenced by Yeats, observed that the poem "Saint Apollinare in Classe" 'anticipated the romanticism of the Byzantine poems' of Yeats. Wilson's poem "Elegy in a Presbyterian Burying-Ground" was included in the 1974

Faber Book of Irish Verse The ''Faber Book of Irish Verse'' was a poetry anthology edited by John Montague and first published in 1974 by Faber and Faber. Recognised as an important collection, it has been described as 'the only general anthology of Irish verse in the ...

. Other books included: *''Equinox'', T. Nelson (London / New York, 1937). *''Raghley, O Raghley : and other poems'', (Edinburgh : Printed for Lawrence Wilson by Robert Mitchell and Sons, 1955).National Library of Ireland Catalogue

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1899 births 1953 deaths Irish poets 20th-century poets {{Ireland-writer-stub