The complete online text of John M. Synge: a Few Personal Recollections, with Biographical Notes by John Masefield.

John Masefield rose to prominence during the first two decades of the twentieth century as the author of Salt-Water Ballads (1902) and of several popular narrative poems including The Everlasting Mercy (1911) and The Widow in the Bye Street (1912). He wa...

John Masefield rose to prominence during the first two decades of the twentieth century as the author of Salt-Water Ballads (1902) and of several popular narrative poems including The Everlasting Mercy (1911) and The Widow in the Bye Street (1912). He wa...

John Masefield is perhaps best known as the poet laureate of England from 1930 until his death in 1967, and his long career as a minor novelist falls under the shadow of his enormously popular poetry. In recent years readers and critics have ignored Mase...