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)