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John Masefield

I lived from 1878-1967. I was from England, and am in the English category.

I influenced poets William M.P. McFee, Cicely Fox Smith.

I was influenced by poets Edwin James Brady, Rudyard Kipling, William Butler Yeats.

Poet, novelist, dramatist and journalist, John Masefield's literary career was rich and varied, and although his reputation waned in later years, he is again being recognized for his wide range, encompassing ballads, nature poetry and mythological narrative, and for his attempt to make poetry a popular art.
John Masefield (1878-1967)
(English Poet Laureate, 1930-1967)

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  • I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
    And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by,
    13 lines, 17 comments
  • Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir,
    Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine,
    16 lines, 26 comments
  • On old Cold Crendon's windy tops
    Grows wintrily Blown Hilcote Copse,
    1517 lines
  • Laugh and be merry, remember, better the world with a song,
    Better the world with a blow in the teeth of a wrong.
    19 lines, 65,535 comments
  • We were schooner-rigged and rakish, with a long and lissome hull,
    And we flew the pretty colours of the cross-bones and the skull;
    28 lines, 2 comments
  • The meet was at "The Cock and Pye
    By Charles and Martha Enderby,"
    1372 lines
  • It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries;
    I never hear the west wind but tears are in my eyes.
    28 lines, 65,535 comments
  • Thy place is biggyd above the sterrys cleer,
    Noon erthely paleys wrouhte in so statly wyse,
    1691 lines
  • We're bound for blue water where the great winds blow,
    It's time to get the tacks aboard, time for us to go;
    21 lines
  • “When I’m discharged at Liverpool ‘n’ draws my bit o’ pay,
    I won’t come to sea no more;
    19 lines, 2 comments

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