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Gustav Melby

Best known for early 20th-century poetry collections, this little-known writer also published a historical drama and a biographical sketch, suggesting a broad literary curiosity. His surviving books point to a career centered on verse, with work appearing from the late 1910s into the 1920s.

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The lost chimes, and other poems

The lost chimes, and other poems

by Gustav Melby

About the author

Gustav Melby was an early 20th-century author whose surviving bibliography shows a strong focus on poetry. Confirmed titles include The Lost Chimes, and Other Poems (1918), Blue Haze: And Other Poems (1925), and Light and Shade.

His work was not limited to lyric poetry. Library records also list King Saint Olaf: A Drama in Five Acts and a prose work, Dee Archie McLarty: A Biographical Sketch, which suggests he wrote across several forms rather than staying in a single genre.

Reliable biographical details about his life are scarce in the sources I found, so it is safest to remember him through his books: a poet first, but also a writer interested in drama, character, and biography.