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Sir John Collings Squire (2 April 1884 – 20 December 1958) was a British writer, most notable as editor of the London Mercury, a major literary magazine in the interwar period. He antagonised several eminent authors, but attracted a coterie that was dubbed the Squirearchy.
As a poet, Squire is best known as the author of The Survival of the Fittest (1916), one of the first collections of poetry to protest World War I. He also published the long poem “The Lily of Malud”(1917).
Apr 9, 2024 · Sir J. C. Squire was an English journalist, playwright, a leading poet of the Georgian school, and an influential critic and editor. Squire was educated at Blundell’s School and at St. John’s College, Cambridge University. He was appointed literary editor of the New Statesman in 1913, and acting.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
If It Had Happened Otherwise is a 1931 collection of essays edited by J. C. Squire and published by Longmans, Green. Each essay in the collection could be considered alternate history or counterfactual history, a few written by leading historians of the period and one by Winston Churchill.
- Squire, John Collings, Sir, Churchill, Winston, Sir
- 1931
Today, J.C. Squire is known as a champion of Georgian verse. A style that fell between the Victorian era and Modernism. It rejected aestheticism for its own sake and focused on romanticism and sentimentality. J.C. Squire died in December of 1958.
‘There was an Indian’ by J.C. Squire describes the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the new world and the reaction of one Native American man. The poem begins with the speaker stating that there was an “Indian” man walking along a beach picking up shells.
J.C. Squire was a British writer who is best remembered as the editor of the London Mercury. He was also a poet and historian. Throughout the First World War, he wrote satirical poems while reviewing for the New Statesman.
