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In this striking book of verse Mr. Gibson writes of simple, homely folk with touching sympathy. The author’s previous book, “Daily Bread,” was heralded far and wide as the book of the year in the field of poetry; in “Fires” are contained many of the same characteristics which distinguished it. The story of a girl whose lover is struck dead by a flying bit of stone; of a wife who has unusual patience with her husband’s shortcomings; of a flute player; of a shop and a shopkeeper; of a machine and those who feed it—these are the subjects of a number of the separate pieces.
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“There is a man in England who with sufficient plainness and sufficient profoundness is addressing himself to life, and daring to chant his own times and social circumstances, who ought to become known to America. He is bringing a message which might well rouse his day and generation to an understanding of and a sympathy with life’s disinherited—the overworked masses.”
“A Millet in word-painting, who writes with a terrible simplicity, is Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, born in Hexham, England, in 1878, of whom Canon Cheyne wrote: ‘A new poet of the people has risen up among us—the story of a soul is written as plainly in “Daily Bread” as in “The Divine Comedy” and in “Paradise Lost.”’”
“Mr. Gibson is a genuine singer of his own day, and turns into appealing harmony the world’s harshly jarring notes of poverty and pain.”
—Abridged from an article in “The Outlook.”
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