Squire, J(ohn) C(ollings) (1884-1958)

English poet and critic. He became literary editor of the New Statesman in 1913 and edited the London Mercury (1919-34), to which he contributed under the name of Solomon Eagle. His verse includes The Survival of the Fittest (1916), Collected Parodies (1921), and Collected Poems (1959).

Squire was born in Plymouth, studied at Cambridge, and became a freelance journalist. He was one of the leading poets of the so-called Georgian movement.