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Sir John Collings Squire (2 April 1884 – 20 December 1958) was a British poet, writer, historian, and influential literary editor of the post-World War I period. His writings mostly discuss common experiences. == Biography == Born in Plymouth, he was educated at Blundell's School and St. John's College, Cambridge. He was one of those published in the Georgian poetry collections of Edward Marsh. His own ''Selections from Modern Poets'' anthology series, launched in 1921, became definitive of the conservative style of ''Georgian poetry''. He began reviewing for ''The New Age'';〔Eric Homberger, ''Ezra Pound'' (1997), p. 83.〕 through his wife he had met Alfred Orage.〔Adrian Smith, ''The New Statesman: Portrait of a Political Weekly, 1913–1931'' (1996), p. 23.〕 His literary reputation was first made by a flair for parody, in a column ''Imaginary Speeches'' in ''The New Age'' from 1909. His poetry from World War I was satirical; at the time he was reviewing for the ''New Statesman'', using the name Solomon Eagle (taken from a Quaker of the seventeenth century) – one of his reviews from 1915 was of ''The Rainbow'' by D. H. Lawrence. Squire had been appointed literary editor when the ''New Statesman'' was set up in 1912;〔Edward Hyams, ''The New Statesman: The History of the First Fifty Years 1913–1953'' (1963), p. 17.〕 he was noted as an adept and quick journalist, at ease with contributing to all parts of the journal.〔Hyams, p. 158.〕 He was acting editor of the ''New Statesman'' in 1917–18, when Clifford Sharp was in the British Army,〔(Leeds Library PDF )〕 and more than competently sustained the periodical.〔Hyams, p. 61.〕 When the war ended he found himself with a network of friends and backers, controlling a substantial part of London's literary press.〔Alec Waugh, ''My Brother Evelyn and Other Profiles'' (1967), pp. 143–147.〕 From 1919 to 1934, Squire was the editor of the monthly periodical, the ''London Mercury''. It showcased the work of the Georgian poets and was an important outlet for new writers. Alec Waugh described the elements of Squire's 'hegemony' as acquired largely by accident, consequent on his rejection for military service for bad sight. Squire's natural persona was of a beer-drinking, cricketing West Countryman; his literary cricket XI, the Invalids, were immortalised in A. G. Macdonell's ''England, Their England'',〔Alec Waugh, ''The Early Years'' (1962), p. 172.〕 with Squire as Mr. William Hodge, editor of the ''London Weekly''.〔(A G Macdonell's England Their England The Characters )〕 In July 1927 he became an early radio commentator on Wimbledon.〔Asa Briggs, ''History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom'' (1995), p. 76.〕 In his book ''If It Had Happened Otherwise'' (1931) he collected a series of essays, many of which could be considered alternative histories, from some of the leading historians of the period (like Hilaire Belloc and Winston Churchill〔(If Lee Had Not Won the Battle of Gettysburg – The Churchill Centre )〕); in America it was published that same year in somewhat different form under the title ''If: or, History Rewritten''. Squire was knighted in 1933, and after leaving the ''London Mercury'' in 1934, he became a reader for Macmillans, the publishers; in 1937, he became a reviewer for the ''Illustrated London News''. His eldest son was Raglan Squire, an architect known for his work at Rangoon University in the 1950s, as the architect for the conversion of the houses in Eaton Sq, London into flats thus ensuring the preservation of that great London Square, and many buildings including offices and hotels in the Middle East and elsewhere. His second son was Antony Squire, a pilot film director (''The Sound Barrier''). His third son Maurice was killed in the Second War while his youngest daughter Julia Baker (née Squire) was a costume designer for theatre and cinema. She married the actor George Baker.〔(Obituary )〕 Squire was an expert on Stilton cheese.〔The First Cuckoo: Letters to THE TIMES 1900-1975; ISBN 004808025X〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「J. C. Squire」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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