Herbert Edward Palmer

Herbert Edward Palmer (Elliott & Fry, late 1930s)

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)

External links

• Works by Herbert Edward Palmer at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Herbert Edward Palmer at Internet Archive
• Herbert Palmer papers at Senate House Library, University of London
• The Roving Angler by Herbert Palmer
• Herbert Edward Palmer Collection at the Harry Ransom Center