"The better production of our generation has been mainly lyrical and it has been widely diffused."
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Selections from Modern Poets, Complete Edition (1927), p. vi.
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J. C. Squire
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.
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