George Reginald Margetson

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]

George Reginald Margetson (c.1923)

He graduated from Bethel Moravian School in 1895. He married Elizabeth Matthews and had "a large family." He lived in the Cambrdige section of Boston.[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. 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. 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.
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