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...

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...

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...

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 adapted or translated from the French or Norwegian. Most...

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 and diverse body of work during a long career,...