Edward Richard Buxton Shanks (11 June 1892 – 4 May 1953) was an English writer, known as a war poet of World War I, then as an academic and journalist, and literary critic and biographer. He also wrote some science fiction.

E. F. Bleiler Everett Franklin Bleiler (April 30, 1920 – June 13, 2010) was an American editor, bibliographer, and scholar of science fiction, detective fiction, and fantasy literature. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, he co-edited the first "year's best" s ...

and Richard Bleiler. ''Science-Fiction: The Early Years''. Kent State University Press, 1990. (p.668). . He was born in London, and educated at

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and Trinity College, Cambridge. He passed his B.A. in History in 1913. He was editor of '' Granta'' from 1912–13. He served in World War I with the British Army in France, but was invalided out in 1915, and did administrative work until war's end. He was later a literary reviewer, working for the '' London Mercury'' (1919–22) and for a short while a lecturer at the University of Liverpool (1926). He was the chief leader-writer for the '' Evening Standard'' from 1928 to 1935. ''The People of the Ruins'' (1920) was a science-fiction novel in which a man wakes after being put into suspended animation in 1924, to discover a devastated Britain 150 years in the future. ''The People of the Ruins'' has an

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subtext (the future 1924 is devastated by

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revolutionaries). John Lucas, ''The Radical Twenties''. Rutgers University Press 1999. (p. 154-55).

Awards and honors

He was the first recipient of the Hawthornden Prize in 1919.

Works

*''Songs'' (1915) poems *''Hilaire Belloc, the man and his work'' (1916) with

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*''Poems'' (1916) *''The Queen of China and Other Poems'' (1919) poems *''The Old Indispensables'' (1919) novel *''The People of the Ruins'' (1920) nove
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at Project Gutenberg Australia *''The Island of Youth and Other Poems'' (1921) poems *''The Richest Man'' (1923) novel *''First Essays on Literature'' (1923) criticism *'' Fête Galante'' (1923) opera libretto *''Bernard Shaw'' (1924) criticism *''The Shadowgraph and Other Poems'' (1925) *''Collected Poems (1900–1925)'' (1926) *''The Beggar's Ride'' (1926) drama *''Second Essays on Literature'' (1927) criticism (W.Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., London) *''Queer Street'' (1933) *''The Enchanted Village'' (1933)(A sequel "Queer Street", however, this one more uncommon) *''Poems 1912–1932'' (1933) *''Tom Tiddler's Ground'' (1934) *''Old King Cole'' (1936) novel *''Edgar Allan Poe'' (1937) *''My England'' (1939) *''Rudyard Kipling – A Study in Literature and Political Ideas'' (1940) *''Poems 1939–1952'' (1953)

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Shanks, Edward 1892 births 1953 deaths English science fiction writers English male journalists People educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood Artists' Rifles soldiers British male poets English male novelists 20th-century English poets 20th-century English novelists 20th-century English male writers

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