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...present laureate, John Masefield, sang so feebly on the occasion of George V's death that he afterwards felt it expedient to declare that he disapproved of churning out verse like a machine. Last week, however, he poised himself for another burst, published his Coronation Sonnet which, despite a feminine rhyme in the last line, is as good an official poem as Britons expect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Seabird City | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

Five men blossomed forth in the poetry of John Masefield and Carl Sandburg, the former's "I Must Go Down to the Sea Again," being especially popular...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Phonograph Records of Freshmen Voice Tests Show Oddities and Sense of Humor of Yardlings | 12/5/1936 | See Source »

EGGS AND BAKER - John Masefield - Macmillan ($2.50). The Dickens-like story of a deeply religious baker in a small English town of the 1870's who, influenced by a theatrical radical leader named Engels, agitates against slum conditions, is driven out of business, goes to jail for throwing an egg at the judge who condemns two poachers to death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Nov. 9, 1936 | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

Following the colorful academic procession, the meeting was called to order by the Sheriff of Middlesex Country. Dean Sperry delivered the Invocation; Professor E. K. Rand, the Latin Oration; John Masefield, the Ode; and Professor Samuel Eliot Morison, an address on the founding of Harvard. Governor Curley extended the greetings of Massachusetts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant Wars on Educational Chaos and Crusades for Liberal Tradition as Harvard Begins Fourth Century | 9/18/1936 | See Source »

During their week at Harvard Mr. and Mrs. Masefield will be guests of Mr. and Mrs. Eliot Wadsworth, of Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Masefield Comes Here to Deliver Official Ode Just a Century After Writing of "Fair Harvard" | 9/17/1936 | See Source »

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