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1926 EDWARD SHANKS Collected Poems 1900-1925 WWI POETRY War Poet
1926 EDWARD SHANKS Collected Poems 1900-1925 WWI POETRY War Poet
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COLLECTED POEMS 1909-1925
Arranged in Six Books
By Edward Shanks
Published by W. Collins Sons & Co, London, 1926. First Edition. Small hardback book measuring 18 x 13cm. 253 pages plus 6 pages of publishers adverts. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece of Shanks.
A good copy. The cloth binding is good with light signs of age. Bookplate belonging to a 'Clarice M. Covell' pasted to the front inside board plus her name written to the top of the front endpaper. Small newspaper clip showing Shanks pasted to the half-title page. Little spotting to the reverse side the frontispiece but all pages clean throughout. Overall a good copy.
Edward Richard Buxton Shanks (11 June 1892 – 4 May 1953) was an English writer, known as a war poet of World War I, then as an academic and journalist, and literary critic and biographer. He also wrote some science fiction.
He was born in London, and educated at Merchant Taylors' School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He passed his B.A. in History in 1913. He was editor of Granta from 1912–13. He served in World War I with the British Army in France, but was invalided out in 1915, and did administrative work until war's end.
He was later a literary reviewer, working for the London Mercury (1919–22) and for a short while a lecturer at the University of Liverpool (1926). He was the chief leader-writer for the Evening Standard from 1928 to 1935.
The People of the Ruins (1920) was a science-fiction novel in which a man wakes after being put into suspended animation in 1924, to discover a devastated Britain 150 years in the future. The People of the Ruins has an anti-communist subtext (the future 1924 is devastated by Marxist revolutionaries)
Arranged in Six Books
By Edward Shanks
Published by W. Collins Sons & Co, London, 1926. First Edition. Small hardback book measuring 18 x 13cm. 253 pages plus 6 pages of publishers adverts. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece of Shanks.
A good copy. The cloth binding is good with light signs of age. Bookplate belonging to a 'Clarice M. Covell' pasted to the front inside board plus her name written to the top of the front endpaper. Small newspaper clip showing Shanks pasted to the half-title page. Little spotting to the reverse side the frontispiece but all pages clean throughout. Overall a good copy.
Edward Richard Buxton Shanks (11 June 1892 – 4 May 1953) was an English writer, known as a war poet of World War I, then as an academic and journalist, and literary critic and biographer. He also wrote some science fiction.
He was born in London, and educated at Merchant Taylors' School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He passed his B.A. in History in 1913. He was editor of Granta from 1912–13. He served in World War I with the British Army in France, but was invalided out in 1915, and did administrative work until war's end.
He was later a literary reviewer, working for the London Mercury (1919–22) and for a short while a lecturer at the University of Liverpool (1926). He was the chief leader-writer for the Evening Standard from 1928 to 1935.
The People of the Ruins (1920) was a science-fiction novel in which a man wakes after being put into suspended animation in 1924, to discover a devastated Britain 150 years in the future. The People of the Ruins has an anti-communist subtext (the future 1924 is devastated by Marxist revolutionaries)
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