Word: masefield
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This is one sports competition, however, in which winning is of wholly secondary importance. The real appeal of competing on the Harvard fishing team is evoked by that closing stanza of John Masefield's poem...
Since Charles II appointed John Dryden England's first Poet Laureate in 1668, the office has been occupied by a number of distinguished men, including Wordsworth, Tennyson, John Masefield and C. Day Lewis. But the job is no plum. As an officer of the royal household, a Poet Laureate ranks just above Bargemaster and Keeper of the Swans. By today's devaluated standards, his pay is $122.50 a year, plus $47.25 in lieu of a butt of sack-once part of the traditional stipend...
...owned by the Philadelphia Maritime Museum. While most of the tall ships are being manned by male cadets, the smaller topsail schooner Sir Winston Churchill, owned by England's Sail Training Association, is carrying 42 female sail trainees. In their massed splendor, the ships suggest another Masefield image: "They mark our passage as a race of men,/ Earth will not see such ships as those again...
...must go down to the seas again, For the call of the running tide Is a wild call and a clear call That may not be denied. -Sea-Fever, John Masefield...
...will follow in the trochees of the late Cecil Day-Lewis as Britain's 19th poet laureate? No hurry about it, of course-there was a seven-month wait last time, after the death of John Masefield in 1967. But the British press is already kicking names around. Most of the names don't seem to be overjoyed at the thought of the honor, which carries a yearly stipend of $182, plus $70 "in lieu of a butt of sack." Says Poet Stephen Spender, 63: "I do not want to do anything that would make me more hated...