Herbert Edward Palmer


Herbert Edward Palmer 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.

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