Word: masefields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...English. Featured in this meeting are demonstrations of "choral speaking" by elementary-school pupils, by members of the Senior class at Newton High, and by members of the Senior class at Wellesley. "Choral speaking" is an experiment only recently Introduced into America. It has been sponsored by John Masefield and other people of International repute...
...prize, which will be given for the best book of poetry published next year, is open to all writers in the British Empire under 35 years of age. Other members of the committee are John Masefield, Walter de la Mare, and Gilbert Murray...
...BIRD OF DAWNING-John Masefield-Macmillan...
...John Masefield. Poet Laureate of England, has developed into such a gently archaic poet that readers of his laureations are apt to forget his hard, seafaring youth. But Masefield himself has not forgotten; ships have always been his lights-o'-love, and in The Bird of Dawning he returns to them with his old youthful fervor. This tale of clipper ships of the China sea trade, just before the days when steam swept sail from the seas, would make a young man's reputation, should shore up old Poet Masefield's against the seeping criticisms of sentimental...
...Poet Masefield has often confessed that the excitement of strong emotion is his chief aid in producing poetry, but the excitement must be definitely nonmechanical. To escape the sound of airplanes flying over his home at Boar's Hill, Oxford he moved this year into the countryside of Gloucestershire (TIME, Jan. 2). Sadly last week the Poet Laureate summed up: "Poets have begun to think they are no longer wanted by the world. Poetry has been separated from the heart of the world...