Robin Flower
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Robin Ernest William Flower (1881 - 1946) was an English poet and scholar, a Celticist and translator from the Irish language.
He was born in Meanwood in Yorkshire, and educated at Leeds Grammar School and Pembroke College, Oxford. He worked in the British Museum.
He wrote several collections of poetry, translations of the Irish poets for the Cuala Press, and on Blasket Island. The anthology The Irish Tradition (1946) is often cited.
[edit] Reference
- Robin Ernest William Flower (1948) Sir Harold Idris Bell
[edit] External links
- http://www.pgil-eirdata.org/html/pgil_datasets/authors/f/Flower,Robin/life.htm
- Translation of Pangur Bán a poem about by an 8th (? 9th) Century Irish monk and his cat
