Word: masefields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Britain's Poet Laureate John Masefield, whose job it is to muse on State occasions for a butt of wine or ?75 a year (he takes the cash), officially recognized a state of war. Poet Masefield, who once said: "The office of Poet Laureate is responsible for much of the world's worst literature," published a poem entitled Some Verses to Some Germans. Excerpts...
...phonograph records* containing recordings of 30 English poems, recited by English Actress Edith Evans. A well-chosen anthology, it contains such favorite pieces as Shakespeare's sonnet ("When to the sessions of sweet silent thought . . ."), Blake's The Tiger, Lewis Carroll's Father William, John Masefield's Cargoes. What lifted the hackles on troubled U. S. listeners' necks was not the voice of the poets but the dying-swan voice of Edith Evans...
Sexpert Dr. Marie (Married Love) Stopes, 57, published a book of verse, Love Songs for Young Lovers, which impressed George Bernard Shaw ("You are a poet all right. It can't be helped") and Laureate John Masefield ("I hope you will write more poems like We Burn"). Of herself she said: "Like 'A. E.' and like Housman, I write poetry only when I am in a special state of excitation...
Eighteen assorted British bigwigs, men like Montagu Norman, John Masefield, Lord Derby last week sent a cream-puff plea to Adolf Hitler to keep the peace of Europe, just as Handsome Adolf was about to say what he was going to do to Europe next...
...prizes of $100 each) offered by the Academy of American Poets for the Fair's Official Poem. Judges: William Rose Benet, Louis Untermeyer, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. For U. S. poets, the first prize is big money indeed-twice their average yearly earnings, about three times Poet Laureate John Masefield's yearly pay, equaled only once before, when Harriet Monroe, late editor of Poetry, wangled $1,000 for her official ode on the 1893 Columbian Exposition...