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.[1][2]

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.

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Notes

  1. George Watson; Ian R. Willison (1969). The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. CUP Archive. pp. clxxxiii. GGKEY:64CF45KC7C0.
  2. "Herbert Edward Palmer, McMaster Libraries". Retrieved 15 December 2015.

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