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...Masefield's Hero Crosses Rights and Lefts...
...about to sacrifice the intrepid sailor at the very shrine of his unswerving attachment when? the door burst down, in pelted Brother Kingsborough with reinforcements, Sagrado was led off in chains ; and the happy couple whose separation had given rise to so much narrative on the part of Mr. Masefield were?for the time being?united...
...SAILOR'S GARLAND?An Anthology of Sea Poems, collected by John Masefield?Macmillan ($2.50). Here Mr. Masefield has gathered his favorite songs of the sea. No fainting nostalgic verses, whispering sotto voce of flying spindrift, cloudy sails and hushed lagoons are these, but salty ballads, roaring chanties, brave sea-tales. Though Chaucer, to whom Mr. Masefield owes much, John Donne and Sir Andrew Barton are well represented, most of the poems are comparatively modern. This is explained by the fact that the older poets, through the Elizabethans, knew the sea only well enough to fear it, regarding...
These lines of Boddoes' strike the key-note of the Masefield anthology of sea-verse, "A Sailor's Geuland," which is to be reissued this week-by Macmillan...
...this collection Mr. Masefield has chosen from the English sea-poetry of all periods verses that deal with sailors and with life at sea, poems of mermaids and of the sea spirits, of love and the affections, of pirates and smugglers, as well as many old ballads and chantios...