Herbert Edward Palmer

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

Recognition
His poems "Ishmael" and "Woodworker's Ballad" were included in the 1939 edition of the Oxford Book of English Verse.

Publications

 * 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
 * The Teaching of English (1930)
 * Cinder Thursday (1931)
 * Collected Poems (1933)
 * The Roving Angler (1933) essays
 * 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, poems
 * A Sword in the Desert (1946) poems