Glen Tilburn Cavaliero (7 June 1927 – 28 October 2019)^[1] was an English poet^[2] and critic.^[3]

Glen Cavaliero was born of mixed Italian and north country English descent, and was educated at Tonbridge School in Kent.^[4] He studied Modern History at Magdalen College, Oxford, and was a staff member at Lincoln Theological College from 1956 to 1961 before matriculating as a mature student to read English at St Catharine's College, Cambridge in 1965. He was awarded a Ph.D. from Cambridge in 1972. Cavaliero was subsequently a member of the Faculty of English at Cambridge University, a Fellow Commoner of St Catharine's College, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature,^[5] and the President of the Powys Society.^[6]

Criticism

• John Cowper Powys, Novelist, Oxford University Press, 1973.
• The Rural Tradition in the English Novel 1900-1939, Macmillan, 1977
• A Reading of E. M. Forster, Macmillan, 1979
• Charles Williams: Poet of Theology, Macmillan, 1983
• The Supernatural and English Fiction, Oxford University Press, 1995
• The Powys Family: Some Records of a Friendship, Cecil Woolf, 1999
• The Alchemy of Laughter, Palgrave Macmillan, 2000

Poetry

• The Ancient People, Carcanet Press, 1973
• Paradise Stairway, Carcanet Press, 1977
• Elegy for St Anne's, Warren House Press, 1982
• Steeple on a Hill, Tartarus Press, 1997
• Ancestral Haunt, Poetry Salzburg, 2002
• The Christmas Robins and Other Poems, privately printed 2005
• The Justice of the Night, Tartarus Press, 2007
• Towards the Waiting Sun, Poetry Salzburg, 2011
• The Flash of Weathercocks, Troubador, 2016

As editor

• Beatrix Potter's Journal, Warne, 1986

• Critical contributions to the PN Review
• Review of Cavaliero's Charles Williams: Poet of Theology, by Dimitri Phillips
• Review of Cavaliero's The Justice of the Night, by William P. Simmons