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100	1		_aSquire, John Collings, Sir, _d1884-1958
245	1	0	_aTricks of the trade
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2026
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aChiefly poems.
500			_aRelease date is 2026-03-12
508			_aJwala 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.)
520			_aTricks 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.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cLondon: Martin Secker, 1918
653			_aParodies
653			_aEnglish wit and humor
856	4		_uhttps://archive.org/details/tricksoftrade00squi/page/n5/mode/2up
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78197
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