R. N. D. Wilson

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1899 – 1953

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Who was R. N. D. Wilson?

Robert Noble Denison Wilson, known as R. N. D. Wilson was an Irish poet.

From 1934–44 he was a teacher at Rendcomb College. His published work includes the collection The Holy Wells of Orris and other poems, the style of which has been described as "early Yeatsian romanticism". Austin Clarke, while agreeing that the book was too much influenced by Yeats, observed that the poem "Saint Apollinare in Classe" 'anticipated the romanticism of the Byzantine poems' of Yeats. Wilson's poem "Elegy in a Presbyterian Burying-Ground" was included in the 1974 Faber Book of Irish Verse.

Other books included:

Equinox, T. Nelson.

Raghley, O Raghley : and other poems,.

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Born
1899
Died
1953

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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