R. N. D. Wilson Explained

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]

Notes and References

1. Web site: ROBERT NOBLE DENISON WILSON, 1899—1953. RENDCOMB 1934-1944.. Rendcomb College Chronicle. July 1953. 27 April 2017.
2. George Davis, The Old Rendcombian Society Newsletter, 2002, pages 5–6. http://www.oldrendcombian.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2002.pdf
3. British Library Integrated Catalogue
4. Norman Vance, Irish Literature Since 1800, Pearson Education (2002), page 174.
5. Austin Clarke, Reviews and Essays of Austin Clarke, Rowman & Littlefield (1995), page 163.
6. National Library of Ireland Catalogue
7. National Library of Ireland Catalogue