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100 1 _aFlynn, Clarence Edwin,
_d1886-1970
245 1 0 _aCollected poems of Clarence Edwin Flynn, second series
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2026-02-02
508 _aTodd E. May
520 _a"Collected poems of Clarence Edwin Flynn, second series" by Clarence Edwin Flynn is a collection of poems written in the early 20th century. The volume showcases accessible, rhymed verse steeped in Christian reflection, civic idealism, and everyday virtue, often celebrating home, childhood, teachers, and humble service. It moves easily between biblical meditations, patriotic pieces, rural nostalgia, and odes to modern wonders like the cinema, radio, and electricity, all in a gently didactic, uplifting tone. The opening of this collection presents a transcriber’s note, acknowledgements, and a preface outlining Flynn’s background as a Methodist Episcopal clergyman and prolific periodical poet, including clarifications about his varying bylines. It then begins a chronological sweep of poems from 1902 onward that mix humor and homespun dialect (“Si Gidders”), biblical voices and devotion (“Hagar’s Song,” “The Open Tomb”), nostalgia for youth and home, and moral encouragement about hope, right conduct, and kindness. Early pieces engage war and peace with a Christian conscience (“A Price Unpaid,” “Two Princes,” “The New Day”), celebrate teachers and children, and repeatedly contrast light and shadow as emblems of life’s testing. A notable thread is Flynn’s fascination with new media and technology—silent films, the screen, radio, electricity—used as metaphors for memory, influence, and communal life, alongside prayers, patriotic tributes, and nature lyrics that frame service and faith as the measure of a life. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cChicago: Disciples Publication Society, 1922
653 _aAmerican poetry -- 20th century
856 4 _uhttps://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112109567864&seq=161&q1=february+16
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77843
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