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...Masefield, unlike his contemporaries, was also not loath to describe the unromantic side of British life. At a time when more traditional poets were writing idylls about Britain, he could write, for example...
...Masefield's pungent realism burst upon English poetry, but his worship of the sea was traditional for a maritime nation and his charming pastorals were long echoes of a yeoman past. His most famous short poem, Sea-Fever, was published with his first collection in 1902 and froze the seaman's world for ever in rolling, hypnotic meter...
...Fashion. Despite the lusty tone of much of his verse, Masefield was a gentle, mild-mannered man who thought of himself as primarily a storyteller. He was a craftsman who turned out some 70 books, including 28 of poetry, 14 novels and the rest biographies, histories and comparatively undistinguished plays. The bestialities of World War I made the romance and optimism of his work go out of fashion, for that era brought the onslaught of symbolism, Freudian introspection, T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. Masefield thought of his laureate role as "a happy duty," though such eminences as Dame Edith...
...Masefield led English poetry out of its Victorian sententiousness and thus earned his modest place in the poets' pantheon. In one of his last books, he wrote: "It is time now to pipe down and coil...
Died. John Masefield, 88, Britain's Poet Laureate since 1930; in Abingdon, England (see THE WORLD...