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Wilfred Rowland Childe

1890–1952


Wilfred Rowland Childe (1890–1952) was a British author and poet, born at Wakefield in Yorkshire, the eldest son of Henry Slade Childe.

The poems printed here are those given in The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse (1917), edited by D. H. S. Nicholson and A. H. E. Lee; the text is taken from that anthology.

  1. Foreword: A Song of the Little City
  2. Turris Eburnea: A Song of God's Fool the Mystic

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