Biography EssayJohn 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...
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John Masefield , poet laureate from 1930 to 1967, is best known for his achievements in narrative and lyric verse. Yet he had published twenty novels, seventeen original plays, and three dramas adapte...
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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 Me...
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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...
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Today John Masefield is best known for his poetry, especially for his Salt-Water Ballads (1902) and for having been Poet Laureate of England from 1930 to 1967. But Masefield produced an amazingly wide...
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Critical Essay by L. A. G. Strong
John Masefield was a copious writer, and one of the most uneven whom our time can show. His official position as Poet Laureate stimulated him to produce, conscientio...
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Critical Essay by Fraser Drew
[Masefield's] chief dedication is to what he feels is the English spirit and to the interpretation to the world of that spirit, the land and the heritage from whi...
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British writer (b. Feb. 1, 1918,
Edinburgh, Scot.
—d. April 13, 2006,
Florence, Italy
), was admired for the satire and wit with which she presented the serious themes of her novels and for...
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Today is Saturday, May 12, the 132nd day of 2007. There are 233 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:One hundred years ago, on May 12, 1907, actress Katharine Hepburn was born in Hart...
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Today is Tuesday, Jan. 1, the first day of leap year 2008. There are 365 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:Two hundred years ago, on Jan. 1, 1808, a law prohibiting the importation...
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John Masefield
John (Edward) Masefield
Critical Essay by L. A. G. Strong
Spark, Dame Muriel
