BOOKS BY JOHN MASEFIELD
BOOKS BY JOHN MASEFIELD
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BALLADS
BY
JOHN MASEFIELD
New Edition. Revised and Enlarged with the addition of Twelve new ones.
SOME OPINIONS OF THE PRESS“Treasure trove ... here is to be found the real gold of true, spontaneous, natural English poetry; racial not only because its spirit is sea-born, but because it is instinct in every line with the health and vigour of those old English ballads both of land and sea that still give to our mother-tongue pretty well all the original sap and sweetness that is left to it. More than any of his previous verse this book of Mr. Masefield’s reminds one of the old ballads.”—Morning Advertiser.“There is a touch on the heart in every one of these ballads; there is no new touch, but, better far than that very rare gift, there is the true touch, unpretentious, but quite unmistakable.”—Vanity Fair.“This invigorating book.... There is the strong joy of living in Mr. Masefield’s poems—the open air and country, and peace. These ballads are not mere songs of seafaring and adventure, and the hope in wild enterprise which dawns for the imagined but never seen buccaneer. But Mr. Masefield is something more. He seems not only to have experienced, but even to have reflected.”—Daily News.“Mr. Masefield has achieved a unique position.... Other poets may be more finished and perfect in form, but he possesses something far more valuable than technique. He has his own way of looking at life and a style that is in consequence quite natural and yet strikingly personal.”—Outlook.
SOME OPINIONS OF THE PRESS
“Treasure trove ... here is to be found the real gold of true, spontaneous, natural English poetry; racial not only because its spirit is sea-born, but because it is instinct in every line with the health and vigour of those old English ballads both of land and sea that still give to our mother-tongue pretty well all the original sap and sweetness that is left to it. More than any of his previous verse this book of Mr. Masefield’s reminds one of the old ballads.”—Morning Advertiser.
“There is a touch on the heart in every one of these ballads; there is no new touch, but, better far than that very rare gift, there is the true touch, unpretentious, but quite unmistakable.”—Vanity Fair.
“This invigorating book.... There is the strong joy of living in Mr. Masefield’s poems—the open air and country, and peace. These ballads are not mere songs of seafaring and adventure, and the hope in wild enterprise which dawns for the imagined but never seen buccaneer. But Mr. Masefield is something more. He seems not only to have experienced, but even to have reflected.”—Daily News.
“Mr. Masefield has achieved a unique position.... Other poets may be more finished and perfect in form, but he possesses something far more valuable than technique. He has his own way of looking at life and a style that is in consequence quite natural and yet strikingly personal.”—Outlook.
London: ELKIN MATHEWS, VIGO STREET, W.
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BALLADS AND POEMS
Includes pieces from “Salt Water Ballads,” now out of print.
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A MAINSAIL HAUL (NAUTICAL YARNS)
With Frontispiece byJack B. Yeats.
“Mr. Masefield has the true spirit of the ancient childhood of the earth. He has the real spirit of the poets, and he has it precisely in that particular in which the poets and the tellers of fairy tales most seriously and most decisively differ from the realists of our own day. Mr. Masefield tells a story that is in itself strange, or splendid, or even supernatural, but tells it in the common, graphic language of life.”—Mr.G. K. Chesterton, inDaily News.
“Mr. Masefield has the true spirit of the ancient childhood of the earth. He has the real spirit of the poets, and he has it precisely in that particular in which the poets and the tellers of fairy tales most seriously and most decisively differ from the realists of our own day. Mr. Masefield tells a story that is in itself strange, or splendid, or even supernatural, but tells it in the common, graphic language of life.”—Mr.G. K. Chesterton, inDaily News.
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THE FANCY
A Selection from the Poetical Remains of the latePeter Corcoran(i.e.,John Hamilton Reynolds, the friend ofJohn Keats). A verbatim Reprint, with Prefatory Memoir byJohn Masefield, and 13 Illustrations byJack B. Yeats.“Humorous, and full of a mischievous topical fun ... delightfully illustrated by Mr. Jack Yeats.”—Manchester Guardian.
A Selection from the Poetical Remains of the latePeter Corcoran(i.e.,John Hamilton Reynolds, the friend ofJohn Keats). A verbatim Reprint, with Prefatory Memoir byJohn Masefield, and 13 Illustrations byJack B. Yeats.
“Humorous, and full of a mischievous topical fun ... delightfully illustrated by Mr. Jack Yeats.”—Manchester Guardian.
By the Author of “The Haunted Island.”
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BUCCANEER BALLADS
ByE. H. Visiak. With an Introduction byJohn Masefield, and a Frontispiece byViolet Helm.“... These fine ballads of Mr. Visiak.... All are good, but some are better than others. An alteration of two words in the last line of the first stanza would have made ‘The Rendezvous’ an absolutely perfect valedictory.”—Glasgow Herald.
ByE. H. Visiak. With an Introduction byJohn Masefield, and a Frontispiece byViolet Helm.
“... These fine ballads of Mr. Visiak.... All are good, but some are better than others. An alteration of two words in the last line of the first stanza would have made ‘The Rendezvous’ an absolutely perfect valedictory.”—Glasgow Herald.
LONDON: ELKIN MATHEWS, VIGO STREET, W.