Clifford Henry Dyment FRSL (20 January 1914 – 5 June 1971)[1] was a British poet, literary critic, editor and journalist, best known for his poems on countryside topics.
[2] Born in Alfreton, Derbyshire, he spent his early childhood in Caerleon-on-Usk but was educated at Loughborough Grammar School in Leicestershire.
[3] His poem "The Son"[4] was occasioned by his discovery of a letter written by his conscripted father[2] prior to his death in World War I.
During World War II he was engaged to make films, working for the British government.
His poem As a boy with a richness of needs I wandered was included by Philip Larkin in The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse, in 1971.