George Reginald Margetson
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George Reginald Margetson (1877 - c.1952) was a stationary engineer and poet. He was born in St. Kitts, British West Indies.[1] He moved to the United States in 1897 and resided in Boston.[2]
He graduated from Bethel Moravian School in 1895. He married Elizabeth Matthews and had "a large family." He lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[3]
His book Fledging Bard and the Poetry Society is a single poem covering 100 pages. His work includes satire.[4]
He died around 1952.[1]
Publishings
[edit]- England in the West Indies; a neglected and degenerating empire Cambridge, Massachusetts (1906)
- Ethiopia’s Flight: The Negro Question; Or, The White Man’s Fear (1907)[3][1]
- Songs of Life collection (Sherman, French & Company, 1910)[1]
- The Call to Duty' (1910)[5]
- The fledgling bard and the poetry society Richard G. Badger, Boston, Copp Clark, Toronto (c. 1916)[6][7]
- Songs of life Sherman, French & Company, Boaton (1910)[8]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d Poets, Academy of American. "About George Reginald Margetson | Academy of American Poets". poets.org. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
- ^ An Anthology of Negro Poetry. United States. Works Projects Administration. New Jersey. 1937.
- ^ a b An Anthology of Verse by American Negroes. Trinity College Press. 1924. ISBN 9780598606396.
- ^ The Book of American Negro Poetry. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 1983. ISBN 9780156135399.
- ^ Poets, Academy of American. "The Call to Duty by George Reginald Margetson - Poems | Academy of American Poets". poets.org. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
- ^ The Fledgling Bard and the Poetry Society. Richard G. Badger. 1916.
- ^ The Book of American Negro Poetry. Harcourt, Brace. 1922. ISBN 9781548519360.
- ^ "Margetson, George Reginald | The Online Books Page". onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu.
Categories:
- 1877 births
- 1952 deaths
- 20th-century African-American writers
- African-American poets
- People from Saint Kitts
- Saint Kitts and Nevis emigrants to the United States
- 20th-century American poets
- 20th-century American male writers
- British Saint Christopher and Nevis people
- Emigrants from the British West Indies
- Writers from Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Poets from Massachusetts
- African-American male writers
- American male poets