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...Field & Co., who put her in charge of the store's restaurant. After her reputation spread, she founded her own catering firm, directed other restaurants. But as hostess in her own home Mrs. Moody was most famed. Even after her husband died in 1910, such writers as John Masefield, Rabindranath Tagore, Padraic Colum, James Stephens continued to come for her food...
POETRY - John Masefield - Macmillan John Collings Squire once defined poetry as the writings of Chaucer, Spenser, Milton, et al. In the present essay, lately (Oct. 15) delivered as a lecture at the Queen's Hall in London, John Mase field follows much the same track, defines poetry by quoting it. He is less nationalistic than Editor Squire; Shakespeare, Dante, Aeschylus and Homer are Poetry to him. His poetic license having been conferred on him by royal appointment, Laureate Masefield does not hesitate to use it. Specimens: Poetry "is best in lands of vintage and in those sunny years which...
...English Laureates traditionally have received annually, as part of their governmental encouragement, a butt of good Canary wine. Laureate Masefield, a respectable, spurned the wine. "I simply don't like the taste of it. On the hand, I like its appearance...
...League. The problem that was temporarily occupying the Secretariat's exalted minds was the low state of Poetry. The Assembly looked more like a publisher's tea than a political assembly. Present as members of the new League Committee on Arts & Letters were: Poet Laureate John Masefield of England, French Academician Paul Valery, German Nobleman Thomas Mann, Italy's Ugo Ojetti, Norway's Nina Roll-Anker. Professor Gilbert Murray (Oxford English Dictionary) was there in his capacity as President of the International Commission for Intellectual Cooperation. The delegates spent most of their time rushing about with...
...Laureate Masefield apologizes for not being an actual thruster, explains how a poet may open his casement on perilous seas: "I have taken a footman's modest part in countless hunts, and have also hunted on a bicycle. When one knows, as I did, every inch of the wide countryside, every path, stile, gate and gap, as well as the workings of a fox's mind, one can hunt, even on foot, with great success, on cold-hunting days. . . . After all, poetry is not a written record of what one does. Were it so, Shakespeare would have been...