R. N. D. Wilson

Robert (or Robin) Noble Denison Wilson, known as R. N. D. Wilson (1899 – January 1953)[1] was an Irish poet.

From 1934 to 1944 he was a teacher at Rendcomb College.[2] His published work includes the collection The Holy Wells of Orris and other poems (London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1927),[3] the style of which has been described as "early Yeatsian romanticism".[4] 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.[5] 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 (London / New York, 1937).[6]
  • Raghley, O Raghley : and other poems, (Edinburgh : Printed for Lawrence Wilson by Robert Mitchell and Sons, 1955).[7]

References

  1. ^ "ROBERT NOBLE DENISON WILSON, 1899—1953. RENDCOMB 1934-1944" (PDF). Rendcomb College Chronicle. July 1953. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
  2. ^ George Davis, The Old Rendcombian Society Newsletter, 2002, pages 5–6. [1]
  3. ^ British Library Integrated Catalogue
  4. ^ Norman Vance, Irish Literature Since 1800, Pearson Education (2002), page 174. ISBN 0-582-49478-8
  5. ^ Austin Clarke, Reviews and Essays of Austin Clarke, Rowman & Littlefield (1995), page 163. ISBN 0-86140-337-1
  6. ^ National Library of Ireland Catalogue
  7. ^ National Library of Ireland Catalogue


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