Robin Flower
Robin Ernest William Flower (1881–1946) was an English poet and scholar, a Celticist, Anglo-Saxonist and translator from the Irish language. He is commonly known in Ireland as "Bláithín" (Little Flower). He married Ida Mary Streeter.
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