Robin Ernest William Flower (16 October 1881 – 16 January 1946)[1] was an English poet and scholar, a Celticist, Anglo-Saxonist and translator from the Irish language.
[1] He was awarded a scholarship to study Classics at Pembroke College, Oxford and graduated with first honours in 1904, before obtaining work as an assistant in the British Museum in 1906.
He wrote several collections of poetry, translations of the Irish poets for the Cuala Press, and verses on Blasket Island.
[8] Under Flower's influence, George Derwent Thomson and Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson made scholarly visits to Blasket.
[18] The essay collection The Irish Tradition (1947) is often cited, and was reprinted in 1994; it includes "Ireland and Medieval Europe", his John Rhŷs Memorial Lecture from 1927.