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...Right Royal, by John Masefield...
...Bagehot thought a better name was "magic," and held that too much light should not be let in on it. For the heart of the monarchy is mysticism; its sanctity is its life. Another mystical belief, that of a Britannic Renaissance, seized the coronation crowds. Wrote Poet Laureate John Masefield...
...puzzled to find that in some textbook versions of the poem Sea Fever ("I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky"), the word "go" was omitted. She sent her problem to the author and back came a hand-written note from John Masefield, Poet Laureate of England since 1930, who wrote: "The word 'go' should be in the line. In some editions it dropped out somehow, but is now restored. It is the original reading...
...quite rightly, that ordinary publishers are looking only for sure things, that an unknown beginner has a slim chance. Besides, the vanity author joins the select list of great writers "who had enough faith in their own work to subsidize its publication," e.g., Thomas Hardy, A. E. Housman, John Masefield, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Edgar Rice Burroughs. (The predominance of poets in the list of examples is no accident; 35% of Exposition's output last year was poetry.) Happy customers and favorable reviews are quoted, successful promotions of the firm's books are played up. By pamphlet...
Quite right, said Reader Peter G. Masefield of Reigate, Surrey. "Some years ago I copied out, from an 18th Century book on the 'Lore of the Chase,' 88 collective terms for various birds and beasts, among them, on the domestic side, a 'kindle of kittens,' and a 'clowder of cats.' " In addition, he found "such antagonistic collections" as a "cowardice of curs," a "pride of lions," "skulk of foxes," "gaggle of geese" (which becomes a "skein" on the wing), "exaltation of larks," "murmuration of starlings" and a "rush of dun-birds." (A Liverpool University...