Collected poems of Clarence Edwin Flynn, second series : $b 1930 and earlier

Description

"Collected poems of Clarence Edwin Flynn, second series" by Clarence Edwin Flynn is a collection of poems written in the early 20th century. It likely gathers his widely published verse into a themed second volume that blends Christian devotion, nostalgia, and civic idealism with vivid images of nature, home, and the modernizing world. Recurring subjects include childhood and teaching, war and peace, patriotic feeling, and the dignity of simple work, alongside fresh fascination with railroads, electricity, film, and radio. The opening of this collection presents a transcriber’s note explaining the ordering by publication year, standardized titles, added appendices, and alternative text for illustrations, followed by acknowledgements to librarians who helped recover sources and a preface outlining Flynn’s life as a Methodist Episcopal clergyman and prolific periodical poet, including clarifications about his varying bylines. The initial run of poems (from 1902 into the 1920s) sets the book’s range: rustic dialect humor and homespun wonder; biblical voices and holiday pieces; meditations on hope, death, and resurrection; World War I reflections contrasting warlords with the Prince of Peace; and tributes to home, children, teachers, and country. Many lyrics frame life as theater or a “screen,” welcoming new media (cinema, radio) and technology (electricity, railroads) while upholding faith and moral duty. Nature sketches, prayers, and portraits of everyday workers recur, often closing in a note of consolation or uplift, and some pieces are accompanied by reproduced magazine covers or illustrations. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Subjects

• American poetry -- 20th century
• PS