Poems - First Series
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers interested in early twentieth-century British poetry and literary culture
- Poetry lovers who enjoy short poems, lightly ironic tone, and everyday subjects
- Students and enthusiasts studying public-domain literature or the history of editing and publishing
- Learners who want to practice reading English poetry with light texts
Not a good fit for
- Readers who prefer strongly lyrical, image-dense, or modernist experimental poetry
- Beginners who need detailed notes, author biography, and introductions to the historical background
- Readers expecting long poems or a complete poetic system
Reading tips
- First browse the table of contents, choose pieces by title and opening line, and read selectively rather than moving straight from beginning to end.
- After every few poems, note in one sentence the common features of tone and subject to observe the early style.
- Choose a short poem and read it aloud once, paying attention to syntax and rhythm, then look back to see whether this affects your understanding.
- If you are interested in the author’s background, consult literary-historical materials separately; there is no need to rely on this electronic edition.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
Contents
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About the author
Sir John Collings Squire (1884–1958) was a British poet, writer and literary critic, born in Plymouth and educated at St John's College, Cambridge. He became literary editor of the New Statesman in 1913, founded the London Mercury in 1919, and was knighted in 1933. He is best known for his anti-war poetry collection Survival, written during the First World War, and was also skilled at political parody. The library holds three of his works, including Poems – First Series, Poems – Second Series and The Three Hills, and Other Poems, which show the continuity of his poetic output. Public information is limited; his work generally deals with war, social reality and political satire, combining lyricism with witty parody, and he had a certain influence on the early twentieth-century British literary scene.
