Herbert Edward Palmer

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

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)