An asterisk (*) has been placed against those books to whose contents I have been unable to obtain access. Masefield's publisher in London is William Heinemann Ltd, in New York The Macmillan Company, unless otherwise specified.
Early Novels
(with dates of first English and American editions in order of publication).
Captain Margaret: A Romance
London: Grant Richards, 1908.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1909.
Multitude and Solitude
London: Grant Richards, 1909.
New York: Nitchell Kennerley, 1910.
Martin Hyde: The Duke's Messenger
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1910.
London: Wells Gardner, Darton and Co. Ltd., 1910.
A Book of Discoveries
London: Wells Gardner, Darton and Co. Ltd., 1910.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1910.
Lost Endeavour
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1910.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1917.
The Street of To-Day
London: J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd., 1911.
New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1911.
Jim Davis
London: Wells Gardner, Darton and Co. Ltd., 1911.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1912.
Later Novels
(with dates of first editions).
The Taking of Helen
London and New York, 1923.
Sard Harker
London and New York, 1924.
Odtaa
London and New York, 1926.
The Midnight Folk
London and New York, 1927.
The Hawbucks
London and New York, 1929.
The Bird of Dawning
London and New York, 1933.
The Taking of the Gry
London and New York, 1934.
The Box of Delights, or, When the Wolves were Running
London and New York, 1935.
Victorious Troy, or, The 'Hurrying Angel'
London and New York, 1935.
Eggs and Baker, or, The Days of Trial
London and New York, 1936.
The Square Peg, or, The Gun Fella
London and New York, 1937.
Dead Ned: The Autobiography of a Corpse ...
London and New York, 1938.
Live and Kicking Ned: A Continuation of the Tale of Dead Ned
London and New York, 1939.
Basilissa: A Tale of the Empress Theodora
London and New York, 1940.
Conquer: A Tale of the Nika Rebellion in Byzantium
London and New York, 1941.
Badon Parchments
London, 1947.
Miscellaneous Prose up to 1914
(with dates of first English and American editions in order of publication).
A Mainsail Haul
London: Elkin Mathews 1905.
New York: The Macmillan Company 1913.
Sea Life in Nelson's Time
London: Methuen and Co. 1905.
On the Spanish Main: Or Some English forays on the Coast of Darien ...
London: Methuen and Co. 1906.
A Tarpaulin Muster
London: E. Grant Richards 1907.
New York: U. W. Dodge and Company 190B .
My Faith in Woman Suffrage
London: The Woman's Press 1910.
William Shakespeare
London: Williams and Norgate 1911 (No.2 of the Home University Library).
New York: Henry Holt and Company 1911.
Plays up to 1914
(with dates of first English and American editions in order of publication).
The Tragedy of Nan and Other Plays
New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1909.
London: Grant Richards 1909. (3 prose plays: 'The Tragedy of Nan', 'The Campden Wonder', and 'Mrs. Harrison').
The Tragedy of Pompey the Great
London: Sidgwick and Jackson, Ltd., 1910.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1914. (A prose play).
Philip the King and Other Poems
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1914.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1914. ('Philip the King' is a play in verse).
Poetry up to 1914
(with dates of first English and American editions in order of publication).
Salt-Water Ballads
London: Grant Richards, 1902.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1913.
Ballads
London: Elkin Mathews, 1903.
Ballads and Poems
London: Elkin Mathews, 1910. (Revised and expanded version of Ballads 1903).
Ballads
London: Elkin Matthews, 1911. (Selections from both 1903 and 1910 Ballads).
The Everlasting Mercy
London: Sidgwick and Jackson, Ltd., 1911.
The Everlasting Mercy and The Widow in the Bye Street
New York: The Hacmillan Company, 1912.
The Widow in the Bye Street
London: Sidgwick and Jackson, Ltd., 1912.
The Story of a Round-House and Other Poems
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1912. (Includes 'Dauber').
The Daffodil Fields
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1913.
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1913.
Dauber: A Poem
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1913.
Selected Works after 1914
(with dates of first editions).
John M. Synge: A Few Personal Recollections
Dundrum: The Cuala Press; and New York, 1915. (prose)
The Faithful: A Tragedy in Three Acts
London and New York, 1915. (prose play)
Good Friday and Other Poems
New York, 1916. ('Good Friday' is a play in verse)
Gallipoli
London and New York, 1916. (prose)
Lollingdon Downs and Other Poems, with Sonnets
London, 1917. (poetry)
The Old Front Line, or, The Beginning of the Battle of the Somme
London and New York, 1917. (prose)
A Poem and Two Plays
London, 1918. (contains 'Rosas', and 2 prose plays: 'The Locked Chest' and 'The Sweeps of Ninety-Eight')
St. George and the Dragon
London, 1919. (prose)
The Battle of the Somme
London, 1919. (prose)
Revnard the Fox: or The Ghost Heath Run
London and New York, 1919. (poetry)
Enslaved and Other Poems
London and New York, 1920. (poetry)
Right Royal
London and New York, 1920. (poetry)
Esther: A Tragedv Adapted and Partially Translated from Racine
London and New York, 1922. (verse play)
Berenice: A Tragedy Translated from Racine
London and New York, 1922. (verse play)
Mellonev Holtspur
London and New York, 1922. (prose play)
King Cole and Other Poems
London, 1923. (poetry)
A King's Daughter: A Tragedy in Verse
London and New York, 1923. (verse play)
Collected Poems
London, 1923. (poetry)
Recent Prose
London, 1924. (prose)
Shakespeare and Spiritual Life
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924. (prose)
With the Living Voice
London, 1925. (prose)
The Trial of Jesus
London and New York, 1925. (play in prose and verse)
Tristan and Isolt: A Play in Verse
London and New York, 1927. (verse play)
The Coming of Christ
London and New York, 1928. (verse play)
Midsummer Night and Other Tales in Verse
London and New York, 1928. (poetry)
Oxford Recitations
New York, 1928. (poetry by Masefield and others)
Easter: A Play for Singers
London and New York, 1929. (verse play)
The Wanderer of Liverpool
London and New York, 1930. (prose and verse)
Chaucer
Cambridge: University Press; and New York, 1931. (prose)
Minnie Maylow's Story and Other Tales and Scenes
London and New York, 1931. (poetry)
Poetry
London, 1931. (prose)
Collected Poems: Revised and Expanded edition
London, 1932. (poetry)
A Tale of Troy
London, 1932; New York, 1931. (poetry)
End and Beginning
London and New York, 1933. (verse play)
The Conway from her Foundation to the Present Day
London and New York, 1933. (prose)
A Letter from Pontus and Other Verse
London and New York, 1936. (poetry)
The Country Scene
London: William Collins Sons and Co., Ltd., 1937. (poetry, with pictures by Edward Seago)
Collected Poems: Revised and Expanded 3rd. edition
London, 1938. (poetry)
Tribute to Ballet
London: William Collins Sons and Co., Ltd; and New York, 1938. (poetry, with pictures by Edward Seago)
Some Verses to Some Germans
London and New York, 1939. (poetry)
Some Memories of W. B. Yeats
Dublin: The Cuala Press; and New York, 1940. (prose and verse)
The Nine Days Wonder
London and New York, 1941. (prose)
In the Mill
London and New York, 1941. (prose)
Gautama the Enlightened and Other Verse
London and New York, 1941. (poetry)
Natalie Maisie and Pavilastukay
London and New York, 1942. (poetry)
Land Workers
London, 1942; New York, 1943. (poetry)
A Generation Risen
London: William Collins Sons and Co., Ltd. , 1942; and New York, 1943. (poetry, with pictures by Edward Seago)
Wanderings (Between One and Six Years)
London and New York 1943. (poetry)
I Want! I Want!
London: National Book Council, 1944; and New York, 1945. (prose)
New Chum
London, 1944; New York, 1945. (prose)
A Macbeth Production
London, 1945; New York, 1946. (prose)
Thanks Before Going
London, 1946; New York, 1947. (prose)
A Play of St. George
London and New York, 1948. (play in prose and verse)
Poems: Revised and Expanded edition
London, 1938. (poetry)
On the Hill
London, 1949. (poetry)
St. Katherine of Ledbury and other Ledburv Papers
London, 1951. (prose)
So Long To Learn: Chapters of an Autobiography
London and New York, 1952. (prose)
The Story of Ossian
London and New York, 1959. (poetry – released as an LP)
The Bluebells and Other Verse
London and New York, 1961. (poetry)
Old Raiger and Other Verse
London, 1964; New York, 1965. (poetry)
Grace Before Ploughing: Fraglnents of Autobiography
London and New York, 1966. (prose)
In Glad Thanksgiving
London and New York, 1967. (poetry)
Sea Life in Nelson's Time
London: Conway Maritime Press, 1971. (prose – 3rd ed, completely re-set and with new illustrations, introduction by Prof. C. C. Lloyd. (Reprinted London: Book Club Associates, 1984))
The Twenty-Five Days
London, 1972. (prose – complete, original version of The Nine Days Wonder 1941)
John Masefield: Selected Poems
London, 1978. (poetry – with a preface by John Betjeman)
John Masefield: The Sea Poems
London, 1978. (poetry – in association with The Marine Society)
John Masefield: Selected Poems
Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1984. (poetry – ed. Donald E. Sanford)
[John Masefield: Selected Poems. Ed. John Betjeman (1978)]
(b) Selected Works about John Masefield
Arranged in chronological order within each section.
Bibliography
Simmons, Charles H. A Bibliography of John Masefield. New York: Columbia University Press, 1930.
Drew, Fraser Bragg. “Some Contributions to the Bibliography of John Masefield: 1.” The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 53 (June, 1959): 188-96.
Drew, Fraser Bragg. “Some Contributions to the Bibliography of John Masefield: 2.” The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 53 (October, 1959): 262-67.
Handley-Taylor, Geoffrey, ed. John Masefield, O.M., A Bibliography. London: Cranbrook Tower Press, 1960.
Criticism
Middleton Murry, John. “The Nostalgia of Mr. Masefield.” In Aspects of Literature. 1920. 2nd ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1934. Pp.164-70.
Hamilton, W. H. John Masefield, A Critical Study. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1922.
Hamilton, W. H. John Masefield, A Popular Study. 2nd ed, revised and expanded. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1925.
Biggane, Cecil. John Masefield: A Study. Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons, 1924.
Williams, Charles. “John Masefield.” In Poetry at Present. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1930. Pp.114-27.
Nevinson, Henry W. John Masefield: An Appreciation. Together with a Bibliography. London: William Heinemann, 1931.
Thomas, Gilbert. John Masefield. London: Thornton Butterworth Ltd., 1932.
Yu Da-Yuen. John Masefield: A Critical Estimate of His Poems and Plays. Peiping, China: Sun Yu Press, 1934.
Knight, G. Wilson. “Masefield’s Tragedy of Nan.” In New Hyperion: A Symposium of Poetry and Criticism. Ed. Geoffrey Handley-Taylor. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1950. Pp.30-36.
Knight, G. Wilson. “John Masefield: An Appreciation.” In John Masefield, O.M., A Bibliography. Ed. Geoffrey Handley-Taylor. London: Cranbrook Tower Press, 1960. Pp.9-11.
Knight, G. Wilson. “W. W. Gibson and John Masefield.” In The Golden Labyrinth: A Study of British Drama. London: Phoenix House, 1962. Pp.331-36.
Knight, G. Wilson. “Masefield and Spiritualism.” In Neglected Powers: Essays on Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Literature. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1971. Pp.260-92, 384-85.
Strong, L. A. G. John Masefield. Printed for The British Council & The National Book League. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1952.
Spark, Muriel. John Masefield. London: Peter Nevill, 1953.
Fisher, Margery. John Masefield. A Bodley Head Monograph. London: The Bodley Head, 1963.
Berry, Francis. John Masefield: The Narrative Poet. The University of Sheffield: Inaugural Lecture, 25 October 1967.
Graves, Robert. "Chaucer's Man." In Remembering John Masefield. Ed. Corliss Lamont. London: Kaye & Ward Ltd., 1972. Pp.104-8.
Drew, Fraser B. John Masefield's England: A Study of the National Themes in His Work. New Jersey: Associated University Presses, 1973.
Greene, Hugh. "Introduction." In John Masefield, Captain Margaret. 1908. Bow Street Library. London: The Bodley Head, 1974.
Sternlicht, Sanford. John Masefield. Twayne English Authors Series. Boston: G. K. Hall & Co., 1977.
Betjeman, John. “Preface.” In John Masefield, Selected Poems. London: Heinemann, 1978.
Hope, Ronald. “Introduction.” In John Masefield, The Sea Poems. London: Heinemann, 1978. Pp. vii-xi.
Buchan, William. “Introduction.” In John Masefield, Letters to Reyna. London: Heinemann, 1978.
Masefield, Judith. "Some Memories of John Masefield". In Lamont (1972, pp.9-17).
Smith, Constance Babington. John Masefield: A Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978.
Lamont, Corliss & Lansing, ed. Letters of John Masefield to Florence Lamont. London & New York: The Macmillan Press Ltd., 1979.
Masefield, John. Letters to Reyna. Ed. William Buchan. London: Buchan & Enright, 1983.
Masefield, John. Letters to Margaret Bridges, 1915-1919. Ed. Donald E. Sandford. Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1984.
Vansittart, Peter, ed. John Nasefield's Letters from the Front, 1915-1917. London: Constable, 1984.
Gregory, John, ed. Brangwen: The Poet and the Dancer. A Story Based on Letters from the Poet Laureate John Masefield to a Young Ballerina During World War Two. Sussex, England: The Book Guild, Ltd., 1988.
[John Masefield: Selected Poems. Ed. John Betjeman (1978)]
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Graves, Robert. Goodbye to All That. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973.
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