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...poet, Alfred Noyes is credited with much studious innovation in metre and verse forms. But the fancies and profundities of his mighty lines are about as subtle and original as Kipling gone Tennysonian with an occasional dash of brine from John Masefield and a few zephyrs from Swinburne...
Several of his friends, among them Compton Mackenzie and John Masefield, persuaded him to come to this country to gain new themes on which to base stories, and to study the people who form one of the largest groups which reads his stories...
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...play, translated by John Masefield from the Norwegian of Wiers-Jenssen, is not so happily inspired. It seems amorphous in character. Starting with the revelation that witchcraft was a medie val actuality, it proceeds to trace the growth of witch-power in young Anne Pedersdotter, second wife of the old village pastor, guilty sweet heart of his son. To satisfy her love, she casts the spell of death upon her old husband. Accused by her mother-in-law, she shrinks from the trial by touch and oath, confesses with a wail of misery and despair her witchcraft, goes to feed...
...attractively illustrated edition of the log of the intrepid Italian traveller with an introduction by John Masefield, together with his no less famous compatriot's account of his own amours and escapades. Handsomely boxed and jacketted, $6.00. Each one sold separately...