1st Edition 1949. This book once belonged to Siegfried Sassoon and is inscribed to him by the author and dated 1940. Also with the book is a two-sided letter to Sassoon written by the author discussing various authors dated 1940. Herbert Edward Palmer 1880-1961, is a largely forgotten poet of the mid-20th century. But his early books were published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at their Hogarth Press, his work was admired by Robert Graves, and his prophetic verse, concerned with the mythic forces of good and evil, was compared to that of William Blake.Palmer was born in the little Lincolnshire town of Market Rasen on 10 February 1880. He went to university in Birmingham and Bonn and made his living in his twenties and thirties by teaching, tutoring and lecturing, especially for the Workers' Educational Association. In 1921 he took up journalism and other writing full time: besides his poetry, he edited anthologies, published a book on teaching English, and undertook some translations. The book is in very good, clean condition and still carries the original dustjacket which is unusual in that it is transparent, except for the flaps which carry the usual printing.