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 (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 Christmas Miniature (1928) The Armed Muse (1930) The Teaching of English (1930) Cinder Thursday (1931) What the Public Wants (1932) Blue Moon booklet Collected Poems (1933) The Roving Angler (1933) essays, revised edition 1947 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 The Dragon of Tingalam: a fairy comedy (1945) A Sword in the Desert (1946) poems 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) Notes External links 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 1880 births 1961 deaths People from Market Rasen People educated at Woodhouse Grove School University of Bonn alumni English male poets 20th-century English poets 20th-century English male writers