Chronology:

[Constance Babington Smith: John Masefield: A Life (1978)]


A Chronology of John Masefield




(Up to the First World War, with salient dates thereafter)

• June 1, 1878 – born at Ledbury, Herefordshire.


• January 20, 1885 – his mother, Caroline, dies of pneumonia shortly after giving birth to a sixth child. (A hunting accident may also have been partly responsible for her death, according to Masefield (Smith, 1978, p.9)).


• January 1888 – goes as a boarder to Warwick School, 'an old foundation of the grammar school type', where he is, at first, extremely unhappy, but later settles down on being moved to a 'Junior House … for the smaller boys' (Smith, 1978, p.15).


• March 1888 – writes his first two poems (neither of which has been preserved).


• Late 1889-early 1890 – Edward Masefield (John's father) undergoes a severe mental breakdown, and is admitted to hospital, where he dies the following year. John goes to live with his uncle and aunt, William and Kate Masefield.


• September 24, 1891 – joins the school-ship H.M.S. Conway as an apprentice. (During this time he first reads Melville, Treasure Island, and Mark Twain).


• March 1894 – leaves the Conway, having gained his "certificate".


• April 25, 1894 – sails as apprentice aboard the Gilcruix, bound for Chile.


• August 1894 – the Gilcruix arrives at Iquique, in Chile – Masefield falls ill, and is discharged from the ship 'on grounds of mutual consent' (Smith, 1978, p.29).


• October 1894 – arrives back at Ledbury, having (presumably) travelled home overland across South America, and then by steamship through the Caribbean (Smith, 1978, p.30).


• March 4, 1895 – Masefield secures a place on the Bidstone Hill, a ship docked in New York. He sails to meet her aboard the White Star mail-ship Adriatic.


• March 30, 1895 – the Bidstone Hill sails from New York ­without Masefield, who has "deserted" by failing to report for duty.


• 1895-1897 – lives in America, doing a variety of odd jobs from bartending to working in a factory – described in In the Mill (1941). Reads Chaucer and Malory for the first time.


• 1896 – Masefield starts writing seriously – mostly sonnets and short lyrics.


• July 1897 – returns to England, but fails to find any work in Liverpool, where he first lands.


• Summer 1897 – goes to London and gets a job as a junior clerk through the good offices of his sister Ethel. He is very sick – with malaria, and what he believes to be consumption.


• 1898 – after a period of convalescence, he starts a new job as a clerk at the Capital and Counties Bank in London. He is to remain there for the next three years.


• June 3, 1899 – 'Nicias Moriturus', a sea poem, is published in The Outlook.


• Late 1899 – discovers the poetry of Yeats, who is to influence him more than anyone else except Chaucer.


• November 5, 1900 – meets Yeats for the first time. Encounters, on this and subsequent occasions, many artists and writers in Yeats's rooms – including Synge, Lady Gregory, Laurence Binyon, and William Rothenstein.


• Mid-1901 – leaves his bank job and determines to live as a writer.


• October 5, 1901 – Masefield has another ballad, 'Trade Winds', accepted by The Outlook, and thereafter sells more to that and other literary magazines.


• January 1902 – accepts a job organizing a big art exhibition in Wolverhampton.


• October 1902 – the exhibition closes; but Masefield has published many more poems, articles and reviews in the meantime.


• November 19, 1902 – his first book, Salt-Water Ballads, is published in an edition of 500 copies. It attracts 'immediate if not considerable attention' (Smith, 1978, p.73).


• July 23, 1903 – marries Constance Crommelin, an Irishwoman eleven years his senior.


• August 1903 – starts reviewing for the Manchester Guardian.


• October 26, 1903 – his second book of poems, Ballads, is published in an edition of 762 copies.


• April 28, 1904 – the Masefields' first child, Judith, born. Masefield is working feverishly as a journalist to support his family, and complains of no longer having the time or the energy for poetry (Smith, 1978, p.85).


• June 1, 1905 – his first prose work, A Mainsail Haul, consisting of reprinted articles and stories, is published in an edition of 1,000 copies.


• September 1905 – Sea Life in Nelson's Time, 'a historical essay' (Simmons, 1930, p.12), published in an edition of 2,000 copies.


• During 1905 – “The Sweeps of Ninety-Eight”, a prose play, written (though not published until 1916).


• May 3, 1906 – On the Spanish Main, another 'historical essay', published in an edition of 1,500 copies. A more sizeable work than Nelson, it also contains material later incorporated in Masefield's first novel, Captain Margaret.


• October 1906 – edits A Sailor's Garland, an anthology of sea poetry, with a note on sea chanties.


• November 1906 – publishes an edition of Dampier's Voyages in two volumes, containing, in all, 1236 pages of text.


• During 1906 – “The Locked Chest”, a prose play based on the Laxdaela Saga, is written; though, again, not published until 1916.


• January 8, 1907 – Masefield's play “The Campden Wonder” is produced by Granville-Barker. A 'succès de scandale despite the fact that the production at the Court had been a fiasco' (Smith, 1978, p.94). According to Frank Swinnerton, it was so 'poignant' that it 'caused sensitives to faint in the theatre' (1956, p.101).


• April 11, 1907 – A Tarpaulin Muster, another book of stories and sketches, published in an edition of 1,500 copies.


• May 24, 1908 – “The Tragedy of Nan”, produced by Granville-Barker with Lillah McCarthy in the leading role, achieves an immediate success.


• June 17, 1908 – publishes his first novel, Captain Margaret: A Romance, in an edition of 2,000 copies (1,000 for sale in America).


• June 29, 1909 – a second novel, Multitude and Solitude, is published in an edition of 2,350 copies. Its motto is:
  

  
  Nor shall these souls be free from pains and fears,
  Till women waft them over in their tears.
  

  (Simmons, 1930, p.18)



• August 7, 1909 – The Tragedy of Nan and Other Plays, three plays in prose, published. The edition is 500 copies.


• November 1909 – Meets Elizabeth Robins, with whom he conducts a "platonic" love affair. In their passionate correspondence he addresses her as 'Mütterlein', or 'Mother', while he is her 'grown-up son who had come home' (Smith, 1978, p.103). She is another of the many women (including his wife) who will take on this "mother" role throughout Masefield's life.


• February 14, 1910 – inspired by Miss Robins, he gives a speech in the Queen's Hall – subsequently published as My Faith in Woman Suffrage.


• April 4, 1910 – The Tragedy of Pompey the Great, a prose play, is published in an edition of 718 copies.


• May 1910 – Elizabeth Robins goes abroad, leaving Masefield emotionally prostrate – a state which will be reflected in his next serious novel, The Street of To-Day.


• July 4, 1910 – Constance, at the age of 43, gives birth to Lewis, the Masefields' second and final child.


• September 15, 1910 – publishes Ballads and Poems, a new edition of the 1903 Ballads, with 3 omitted and many added.


• October 8, 1910 – Martin Hyde: The Duke's Messenger, Masefield's first novel for boys, is published in America in an edition of 1,009 copies. The English edition, 20 days later, was 2,666.


• October 10, 1910 – A Book of Discoveries, another boys' book, in an edition of 3,000.


• November 25, 1910 – Lost Endeavour, yet another boys' book – his third to be published in two months (though presumably he had been working on them all for some time past). The edition was 12,000 copies – his biggest so far.


• March 22, 1911 – The Street of To-Day – a novel, the sequel to Multitude and Solitude, is published in an edition of 2,600 copies.


• April 5, 1911 – William Shakespeare, a critical essay, is published in the Home University Library.


• April 1911 – publishes in the Contemporary Review the article on John Synge which will later (in 1915) be printed as a book by the Cuala Press.


• September 21, 1911 – first publication (in America, for copyright purposes) of The Everlasting Mercy, his explosive narrative poem – which appeared in The English Review in October (with most of the 'bloody's' left out), and in book form in England on November 2, in an edition of 1,000 copies.


• October 4, 1911 – the last of his pre-war novels, Jim Davis, a boys' book, is published in an edition of 2,000 copies.


• February 1912 – “The Widow in the Bye Street”, Masefield's next long poem, is printed in The English Review. It is published in book form in June in an edition of 3,000 copies.


• October 1912 – “Dauber” appears in The English Review – and in book form in America in November (the English edition does not appear until May 1913).


• February 1913 – “The Daffodil Fields” appears in The English Review, and in book form on March 26, in an edition of 1620.


• September 1914 – Masefield's war poem 'August, 1914' is published in The English Review – it is reprinted in his next volume of poetry.


• October 1, 1914 – Philip the King and Other Poems, consisting of a verse play and some miscellaneous poems, which is printed by Heinemann in an edition of 3,000 copies.


• Early 1915 – Masefield writing the 'sonnets on the theme of beauty' (Smith, 1978, p.121) which will later be collected in Lollingdon Downs and Other Poems (1917).


• February 18, 1915 – Masefield goes out to France to serve as a Red Cross Orderly.



[John Masefield: Two One-Act Plays (1916)]

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Later Dates




• September 1916 – Gallipoli: war reportage.


• October 1919 – Reynard the Fox: narrative poem.


• June 1923 – The Taking of Helen: novella, with verse passages.


• October 1923 – Collected Poems.


• October 1924 – Sard Harker: a novel.


• November 1927 – The Midnight Folk: children's book.


• May 1930 – appointed Poet Laureate.


• November 1933 – The Bird of Dawning: sea story.


• June 1935 – Order of Merit conferred.


• August 1938 – Dead Ned: novel.


• October 1941 – Conquer: historical novel, set in Byzantium.


• December 1947 – Badon Parchments: his last novel.


• March 1952 – So Long To Learn: autobiography.


• 1967 – In Glad Thanksgiving: his last book of poems.


• May 12, 1967 – John Masefield dies in his home near Oxford, at the age of 88.

[John Masefield: Two One-Act Plays (1916)]

Works Cited:

• Handley-Taylor, Geoffrey, ed. John Masefield, O.M., A Bibliography. London: Cranbrook Tower Press 1960.


• Simmons, Charles H. A Bibliography of John Masefield. New York: Columbia University Press, 1930.


• Smith, Constance Babington. John Masefield: A Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978.


• Swinnerton, Frank. Background with Chorus. New York: Farrar, Strauss & Cudahy, 1956.

[John Masefield's autograph]

Bibliography:

[John Masefield]




(a) Major Works of John Nasefield

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.

1. Early Novels

(with dates of first English and American editions in order of publication).



1. Captain Margaret: A Romance
   • London: Grant Richards, 1908.
   • Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1909.


2. Multitude and Solitude
   • London: Grant Richards, 1909.
   • New York: Nitchell Kennerley, 1910.


3. Martin Hyde: The Duke's Messenger
   • Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1910.
   • London: Wells Gardner, Darton and Co. Ltd., 1910.


4. A Book of Discoveries
   • London: Wells Gardner, Darton and Co. Ltd., 1910.
   • New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1910.


5. Lost Endeavour
   • London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1910.
   • New York: The Macmillan Company, 1917.


6. The Street of To-Day
   • London: J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd., 1911.
   • New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1911.


7. Jim Davis
   • London: Wells Gardner, Darton and Co. Ltd., 1911.
   • New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1912.




2. Later Novels

(with dates of first editions).



1. The Taking of Helen
   • London and New York, 1923.


2. Sard Harker
   • London and New York, 1924.


3. Odtaa
   • London and New York, 1926.


4. The Midnight Folk
   • London and New York, 1927.


5. The Hawbucks
   • London and New York, 1929.


6. The Bird of Dawning
   • London and New York, 1933.


7. The Taking of the Gry
   • London and New York, 1934.


8. The Box of Delights, or, When the Wolves were Running
   • London and New York, 1935.


9. Victorious Troy, or, The 'Hurrying Angel'
   • London and New York, 1935.


10. Eggs and Baker, or, The Days of Trial
    • London and New York, 1936.


11. The Square Peg, or, The Gun Fella
    • London and New York, 1937.


12. Dead Ned: The Autobiography of a Corpse ...
    • London and New York, 1938.


13. Live and Kicking Ned: A Continuation of the Tale of Dead Ned
    • London and New York, 1939.


14. Basilissa: A Tale of the Empress Theodora
    • London and New York, 1940.


15. Conquer: A Tale of the Nika Rebellion in Byzantium
    • London and New York, 1941.


16. Badon Parchments
    • London, 1947.




3. Miscellaneous Prose up to 1914

(with dates of first English and American editions in order of publication).



1. A Mainsail Haul
   • London: Elkin Mathews 1905.
   • New York: The Macmillan Company 1913.


2. Sea Life in Nelson's Time
   • London: Methuen and Co. 1905.


3. On the Spanish Main: Or Some English forays on the Coast of Darien ...
   • London: Methuen and Co. 1906.


4. A Tarpaulin Muster
   • London: E. Grant Richards 1907.
   • New York: U. W. Dodge and Company 190B .


5. My Faith in Woman Suffrage
   • London: The Woman's Press 1910.


6. William Shakespeare
   • London: Williams and Norgate 1911
     (No.2 of the Home University Library).
   • New York: Henry Holt and Company 1911.




4. Plays up to 1914

(with dates of first English and American editions in order of publication).



1. 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').


2. The Tragedy of Pompey the Great
   • London: Sidgwick and Jackson, Ltd., 1910.
   • New York: The Macmillan Company, 1914.
     (A prose play).


3. 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).




5. Poetry up to 1914

(with dates of first English and American editions in order of publication).



1. Salt-Water Ballads
   • London: Grant Richards, 1902.
   • New York: The Macmillan Company, 1913.


2. Ballads
   • London: Elkin Mathews, 1903.


3. Ballads and Poems
   • London: Elkin Mathews, 1910.
     (Revised and expanded version of Ballads 1903).


4. Ballads
   • London: Elkin Matthews, 1911.
     (Selections from both 1903 and 1910 Ballads).


5. The Everlasting Mercy
   • London: Sidgwick and Jackson, Ltd., 1911.


6. The Everlasting Mercy and The Widow in the Bye Street
   • New York: The Hacmillan Company, 1912.


7. The Widow in the Bye Street
   • London: Sidgwick and Jackson, Ltd., 1912.


8. The Story of a Round-House and Other Poems
   • New York: The Macmillan Company, 1912.
     (Includes 'Dauber').


9. The Daffodil Fields
   • New York: The Macmillan Company, 1913.
   • London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1913.


10. Dauber: A Poem
    • London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1913.




6. Selected Works after 1914

(with dates of first editions).



1. John M. Synge: A Few Personal Recollections
   • Dundrum: The Cuala Press; and New York, 1915.
     (prose)


2. The Faithful: A Tragedy in Three Acts
   • London and New York, 1915.
     (prose play)


3. Good Friday and Other Poems
   • New York, 1916.
     ('Good Friday' is a play in verse)


4. Gallipoli
   • London and New York, 1916.
     (prose)


5. Lollingdon Downs and Other Poems, with Sonnets
   • London, 1917.
     (poetry)


6. The Old Front Line, or, The Beginning of the Battle of the Somme
   • London and New York, 1917.
     (prose)


7. A Poem and Two Plays
   • London, 1918.
     (contains 'Rosas', and 2 prose plays: 'The Locked Chest' and 'The Sweeps of Ninety-Eight')


8. St. George and the Dragon
   • London, 1919.
     (prose)


9. The Battle of the Somme
   • London, 1919.
     (prose)


10. Revnard the Fox: or The Ghost Heath Run
    • London and New York, 1919.
      (poetry)


11. Enslaved and Other Poems
    • 
      London and New York, 1920.
      (poetry)


12. Right Royal
    • 
      London and New York, 1920.
      (poetry)


13. Esther: A Tragedv Adapted and Partially Translated from Racine
    • London and New York, 1922.
      (verse play)


14. Berenice: A Tragedy Translated from Racine
    • London and New York, 1922.
      (verse play)


15. Mellonev Holtspur
    • London and New York, 1922.
      (prose play)


16. King Cole and Other Poems
    • London, 1923.
      (poetry)


17. A King's Daughter: A Tragedy in Verse
    • London and New York, 1923.
      (verse play)


18. Collected Poems
    • London, 1923.
      (poetry)


19. Recent Prose
    • London, 1924.
      (prose)


20. Shakespeare and Spiritual Life
    • Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924.
      (prose)


21. With the Living Voice
    • London, 1925.
      (prose)


22. The Trial of Jesus
    • London and New York, 1925.
      (play in prose and verse)


23. Tristan and Isolt: A Play in Verse
    • London and New York, 1927.
      (verse play)


24. The Coming of Christ
    • London and New York, 1928.
      (verse play)


25. Midsummer Night and Other Tales in Verse
    • London and New York, 1928.
      (poetry)


26. Oxford Recitations
    • New York, 1928.
      (poetry by Masefield and others)


27. Easter: A Play for Singers
    • London and New York, 1929.
      (verse play)


28. The Wanderer of Liverpool
    • London and New York, 1930.
      (prose and verse)


29. Chaucer
    • Cambridge: University Press; and New York, 1931.
      (prose)


30. Minnie Maylow's Story and Other Tales and Scenes
    • London and New York, 1931.
      (poetry)


31. Poetry
    • London, 1931.
      (prose)


32. Collected Poems: Revised and Expanded edition
    • London, 1932.
      (poetry)


33. A Tale of Troy
    • London, 1932; New York, 1931.
      (poetry)


34. End and Beginning
    • London and New York, 1933.
      (verse play)


35. The Conway from her Foundation to the Present Day
    • London and New York, 1933.
      (prose)


36. A Letter from Pontus and Other Verse
    • London and New York, 1936.
      (poetry)


37. The Country Scene
    • London: William Collins Sons and Co., Ltd., 1937.
      (poetry, with pictures by Edward Seago)


38. Collected Poems: Revised and Expanded 3rd. edition
    • London, 1938.
      (poetry)


39. Tribute to Ballet
    • London: William Collins Sons and Co., Ltd; and New York, 1938.
      (poetry, with pictures by Edward Seago)


40. Some Verses to Some Germans
    • London and New York, 1939.
      (poetry)


41. Some Memories of W. B. Yeats
    • Dublin: The Cuala Press; and New York, 1940.
      (prose and verse)


42. The Nine Days Wonder
    • London and New York, 1941.
      (prose)


43. In the Mill
    • London and New York, 1941.
      (prose)


44. Gautama the Enlightened and Other Verse
    • London and New York, 1941.
      (poetry)


45. Natalie Maisie and Pavilastukay
    • London and New York, 1942.
      (poetry)


46. Land Workers
    • London, 1942; New York, 1943.
      (poetry)


47. A Generation Risen
    • London: William Collins Sons and Co., Ltd. , 1942; and New York, 1943.
      (poetry, with pictures by Edward Seago)


48. Wanderings (Between One and Six Years)
    • London and New York 1943.
      (poetry)


49. I Want! I Want!
    • London: National Book Council, 1944; and New York, 1945.
      (prose)


50. New Chum
    • London, 1944; New York, 1945.
      (prose)


51. A Macbeth Production
    • London, 1945; New York, 1946.
      (prose)


52. Thanks Before Going
    • London, 1946; New York, 1947.
      (prose)


53. A Play of St. George
    • London and New York, 1948.
      (play in prose and verse)


54. Poems: Revised and Expanded edition
    • London, 1938.
      (poetry)


55. On the Hill
    • London, 1949.
      (poetry)


56. St. Katherine of Ledbury and other Ledburv Papers
    • London, 1951.
      (prose)


57. So Long To Learn: Chapters of an Autobiography
    • London and New York, 1952.
      (prose)


58. The Story of Ossian
    • London and New York, 1959.
      (poetry – released as an LP)


59. The Bluebells and Other Verse
    • London and New York, 1961.
      (poetry)


60. Old Raiger and Other Verse
    • London, 1964; New York, 1965.
      (poetry)


61. Grace Before Ploughing: Fraglnents of Autobiography
    • London and New York, 1966.
      (prose)


62. In Glad Thanksgiving
    • London and New York, 1967.
      (poetry)


63. 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))


64. The Twenty-Five Days
    • London, 1972.
      (prose – complete, original version of The Nine Days Wonder 1941)


65. John Masefield: Selected Poems
    • London, 1978.
      (poetry – with a preface by John Betjeman)


66. John Masefield: The Sea Poems
    • London, 1978.
      (poetry – in association with The Marine Society)


67. 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.

1. Bibliography




1. Simmons, Charles H. A Bibliography of John Masefield. New York: Columbia University Press, 1930.


2. 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.


3. 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.


4. Handley-Taylor, Geoffrey, ed. John Masefield, O.M., A Bibliography. London: Cranbrook Tower Press, 1960.




2. Criticism




1. Middleton Murry, John. “The Nostalgia of Mr. Masefield.” In Aspects of Literature. 1920. 2nd ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1934. Pp.164-70.


2. Hamilton, W. H. John Masefield, A Critical Study. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1922.


3. Hamilton, W. H. John Masefield, A Popular Study. 2nd ed, revised and expanded. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1925.


4. Biggane, Cecil. John Masefield: A Study. Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons, 1924.


5. Williams, Charles. “John Masefield.” In Poetry at Present. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1930. Pp.114-27.


6. Nevinson, Henry W. John Masefield: An Appreciation. Together with a Bibliography. London: William Heinemann, 1931.


7. Thomas, Gilbert. John Masefield. London: Thornton Butterworth Ltd., 1932.


8. Yu Da-Yuen. John Masefield: A Critical Estimate of His Poems and Plays. Peiping, China: Sun Yu Press, 1934.


9. 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.


10. 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.


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.


12. 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.


13. Strong, L. A. G. John Masefield. Printed for The British Council & The National Book League. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1952.


14. Spark, Muriel. John Masefield. London: Peter Nevill, 1953.


15. Fisher, Margery. John Masefield. A Bodley Head Monograph. London: The Bodley Head, 1963.


16. Berry, Francis. John Masefield: The Narrative Poet. The University of Sheffield: Inaugural Lecture, 25 October 1967.


17. Graves, Robert. "Chaucer's Man." In Remembering John Masefield. Ed. Corliss Lamont. London: Kaye & Ward Ltd., 1972. Pp.104-8.


18. Drew, Fraser B. John Masefield's England: A Study of the National Themes in His Work. New Jersey: Associated University Presses, 1973.


19. Greene, Hugh. "Introduction." In John Masefield, Captain Margaret. 1908. Bow Street Library. London: The Bodley Head, 1974.


20. Sternlicht, Sanford. John Masefield. Twayne English Authors Series. Boston: G. K. Hall & Co., 1977.


21. Betjeman, John. “Preface.” In John Masefield, Selected Poems. London: Heinemann, 1978.


22. Hope, Ronald. “Introduction.” In John Masefield, The Sea Poems. London: Heinemann, 1978. Pp. vii-xi.


23. Buchan, William. “Introduction.” In John Masefield, Letters to Reyna. London: Heinemann, 1978.




3. Biography & Letters




1. Lamont, Corliss, ed. Remembering John Masefield. London: Kaye & Ward Ltd., 1972.


2. Masefield, Judith. "Some Memories of John Masefield". In Lamont (1972, pp.9-17).


3. Smith, Constance Babington. John Masefield: A Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978.


4. Lamont, Corliss & Lansing, ed. Letters of John Masefield to Florence Lamont. London & New York: The Macmillan Press Ltd., 1979.


5. Masefield, John. Letters to Reyna. Ed. William Buchan. London: Buchan & Enright, 1983.


6. Masefield, John. Letters to Margaret Bridges, 1915-1919. Ed. Donald E. Sandford. Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1984.


7. Vansittart, Peter, ed. John Nasefield's Letters from the Front, 1915-1917. London: Constable, 1984.


8. 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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[John Masefield & Edward Seago: A Generation Risen (1943)]