biography
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Masefield, John (Edward)
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| lived:
| (1878–1967)
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| biography:
| Poet and novelist, born in Ledbury, Hereford and Worcester, WC England, UK. Trained for the merchant service, he served his apprenticeship on a sailing ship. Ill health drove him ashore, and after three years in New York he returned to England to become a writer in 1897, first making his mark as a journalist. His earliest and best-known poetical work, Salt Water Ballads (containing ‘Sea Fever’), appeared in 1902. His finest narrative poem is probably ‘Reynard the Fox’ (1919), and other works include the novels Sard Harker (1924) and The Hawbucks (1929), and the plays The Trial of Jesus (1925) and The Coming of Christ (1928). He became poet laureate in 1930. |
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