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John Edward Masefield OM (/ ˈ m eɪ s ˌ f iː l d, ˈ m eɪ z-/; 1 June 1878 – 12 May 1967) was an English poet and writer, and Poet Laureate from 1930 until his death in 1967. Among his best known works are the children's novels The Midnight Folk and The Box of Delights , and the poems " The Everlasting Mercy " and " Sea-Fever ".
May 28, 2024 · John Masefield was a poet, best known for his poems of the sea, Salt-Water Ballads (1902, including “Sea Fever” and “Cargoes”), and for his long narrative poems, such as The Everlasting Mercy (1911), which shocked literary orthodoxy with its phrases of a colloquial coarseness hitherto unknown in.
Poet, novelist, dramatist and journalist, John Masefield's literary career was rich and varied, and although his reputation waned in later years, he is again being recognized for his wide range, encompassing ballads, nature poetry and mythological narrative, and for his attempt to make poetry a popular art. John Masefield (1878-1967)
British poet John Edward Masefield was born in Herefordshire. He studied at Warwick School before training as a merchant seaman. In 1895, he deserted his ship in New York City and worked there in a carpet factory before returning to London to write poems describing his experience at sea.
Sea-Fever. By John Masefield. I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by; And the wheel’s kick and the wind’s song and the white sail’s shaking, And a grey mist on the sea’s face, and a grey dawn breaking.
John Edward Masefield was an English poet and children’s fiction writer born June 1, 1878, in Ledbury, Herefordshire, England. Following the deaths of both his parents, six-year-old Masefield, now under the guardianship of his aunt, was sent to board at the King’s School in Warwick (now, the Warwick School).
Salt-Water Poems and Ballads is a book of poetry on themes of seafaring and maritime history by John Masefield. It was first published in 1916 by Macmillan, with illustrations by Charles Pears. Many of the poems had been published in Masefield's earlier collections, Salt-Water Ballads (1902), Ballads (1903) and Ballads and Poems (1910).
Who was John Masefield? As his novel The Box of Delights takes to our Royal Shakespeare Theatre stage, we look at the life of the Midlands-born prolific writer and poet. With more than a hundred poems, plays and novels to his name, John Masefield is one of the Midlands' most successful writers.
John Masefield (1878-1967) was English Poet Laureate from 1930-1967 and published Sea-Fever in 1902. Masefield published it originally with the title hyphenated, and the opening line of each stanza beginning, “I must down to the seas again…”.
Best remembered today for the immortal lines, “I must go down to the seas again” and his two books for children: The Midnight Folk (1927) and The Box of Delights (1935), John Masefield was Poet Laureate of the UK from 1930-1967. He was born in Ledbury on 1 June 1878, the third of six children.
