Edward Shanks

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Edward Richard Buxton Shanks (1892 â€" 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 Taylor's School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He served in World War I with the British Army in France, but was invalided out in 1915, and did administrative work.

He was later a literary reviewer, working for the London Mercury and for a short while a lecturer at the University of Liverpool. He then wrote for the Evening Standard, to 1935.

Works

Songs (1915) poems
Hilaire Belloc, the man and his work (1916) with C. Creighton Mandell
The Queen of China (1919) poems
The People of the Ruins (1920) novel
The Island of Youth (1921) poems
Poems 1912-1932 (1933)
Old King Cole (1936) novel
Edgar Allan Poe (1937)
Queer Street (1938)
Rudyard Kipling - A Study in Literature and Political Ideas (1940)
Poems 1939-1952 (1953)