George Reginald Margetson

George Reginald Margetson (c.1923)

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

  • 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

  1. ^ a b c d Poets, Academy of American. "About George Reginald Margetson | Academy of American Poets". poets.org. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
  2. ^ An Anthology of Negro Poetry. United States. Works Projects Administration. New Jersey. 1937.
  3. ^ a b An Anthology of Verse by American Negroes. Trinity College Press. 1924. ISBN 9780598606396.
  4. ^ The Book of American Negro Poetry. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 1983. ISBN 9780156135399.
  5. ^ Poets, Academy of American. "The Call to Duty by George Reginald Margetson - Poems | Academy of American Poets". poets.org. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
  6. ^ The Fledgling Bard and the Poetry Society. Richard G. Badger. 1916.
  7. ^ The Book of American Negro Poetry. Harcourt, Brace. 1922. ISBN 9781548519360.
  8. ^ "Margetson, George Reginald | The Online Books Page". onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu.