Wilfred Rowland Childe (26 April 1890 – 10 November 1952) was a British author and poet.
[2] Childe was educated at Harrow School and Magdalen College, Oxford.
He is chiefly remembered for Dream English: A Fantastical Romance (1917) which was and still is something of a minor cult book.
[2] He was eulogised in The Times by a friend, who wrote, "His influence on young poets and his practical, though covert, assistance to them were very great; he was all his life a poet himself with many volumes to his credit- poems full of his own calmness and gentle vision and sincere, contemplative thought, which never claimed to be more than a true expression of his own nature.
But to those who knew him and were taught by him, it is the memory of his great kindness, saintly patience, and sweetness of character which will be held most dear.