Squire, John Collings, Sir 1884-1958 creator text utu 2026 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats Tricks of the trade by Sir John Collings Squire is a collection of literary parodies and satirical pastiches written in the early 20th century. The book playfully imitates famous writers and reimagines well-known works in alien voices, with a sharp focus on exposing the tics, habits, and mannerisms that make styles instantly recognizable. The collection divides into two parts. “How They Do It” caricatures living and recent figures: rollicking Sussex-and-beer verse for Belloc, naïve nature-simplicity for Davies, brassbound naval patriotism for Newbolt, gritty melodrama and murder in Masefield’s street-ballad mode, paradox and apocalypse for Chesterton, Celtic “twilight” wistfulness, manufactured folk-songs, a breathless confessional-politico narrative for Wells, and a Shavian playlet where a dramatist barges in on Mahomet. “How They Would Have Done It” recasts classics in borrowed voices: Wordsworth turning The Everlasting Mercy into sober moral narrative; Swinburne’s torrent surging through The Lay of Horatius; Masefield roughening Casabianca; an all-purpose Elizabethan inflating “She Dwelt”; Pope and Gray refitting Tennyson and Spoon River; a “very new” minimalist doing The Lotus-Eaters; Henry James labyrinthizing the Church Catechism; Byron swaggering through The Passing of Arthur; and Tagore spiritualizing “Little Drops of Water.” Throughout, the pieces skewer clichés, rhythms, and favorite themes with witty precision. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Chiefly poems. Release date is 2026-03-12 Jwala Kumar Sista, Tim Lindell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) Originally published: London: Martin Secker, 1918 Parodies English wit and humor PR London: Martin Secker, 1918 https://archive.org/details/tricksoftrade00squi/page/n5/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78197 https://archive.org/details/tricksoftrade00squi/page/n5/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78197 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134819.0 78197