Herbert Edward Palmer was an English poet

Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

 and critic.

He was born in Market Rasen

Market Rasen

Market Rasen is a town and civil parish within the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It lies on the River Rase northeast of Lincoln, east of Gainsborough and southwest of Grimsby. According to the 2001 census, it has a population of 3,200....

, Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire is a county in the east of England. It borders Norfolk to the south east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south west, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire to the west, South Yorkshire to the north west, and the East Riding of Yorkshire to the north. It also borders...

 and educated at Woodhouse Grove School

Woodhouse Grove School

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, 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.

Workers' Educational Association

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; and spending many years in France and Germany.

He encouraged the young John Gawsworth

John Gawsworth

John Gawsworth , a pseudonym of Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong , was a British writer, poet and compiler of anthologies, both of poetry and of short stories. He also used the pseudonym Orpheus Scrannel...

. He introduced C. S. Lewis

C. S. Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis , commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis and known to his friends and family as "Jack", was a novelist, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist from Belfast, Ireland...

 and Ruth Pitter

Ruth Pitter

Emma Thomas "Ruth" Pitter, CBE, FRSL was a 20th century British poet.She was the first woman to receive the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1955, and was appointed a CBE in 1979 to honour her many contributions to English literature.In 1974, she was named a "Companion of Literature", the highest...

 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
• 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
  Faber and Faber
  Faber and Faber Limited, often abbreviated to Faber, is an independent publishing house in the UK, notable in particular for publishing a great deal of poetry and for its former editor T. S. Eliot. Faber has a rich tradition of publishing a wide range of fiction, non fiction, drama, film and music...
  
  , poems
• A Sword in the Desert (1946) poems