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...Wrexham for the national festival or Eisteddfod of Wales politely honored a bleak, grey-mustached, sensitive man who as a youth polished cuspidors and the brass rail of Luke O'Connor's bygone saloon in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. Later in Yonkers, N. Y. sensitive John Masefield learned to abhor the Machine Age by working in a rug mill. Last week as the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom he told Welshmen that "the world subconsciously longs for poetry but it now invents substitutes, such as speed, to obtain the excitement which poetry would give...
...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...
Because Poet-Laureate John Masefield's U.S. manager booked him for only one lecture in Canada, the Toronto Telegram headlined: A LION ON A LEASH AND THAT LEASH U.S.A. Newsmen recalled the New York Telegraph's headline upon the occasion that the late Poet-Laureate Robert Bridges refused interviews in the U.S.: KING'S CANARY REFUSES TO CHIRP...
RECENT PROSE-John Masefield- Macmillan ($2.50). Papers on Synge, Yeats, Chaucer, Shakespeare et al. by England's U. S.-lecturing Poet Laureate...
...become one of the best players of his time. He was almost uncatchable on the bases, became celebrated in the song ''Slide. Kelly, Slide." In a Boston hospital, fatally ill of pneumonia, he slipped off a stretcher. Cried Kelly: "This is my last slide." Said Mrs. John Masefield, in New York, of her crossing aboard the S. S. Mauretania with her famed husband. Poet Laureate of England and of the sea: "It was too uppy-downy, and Mr. Masefield was ill." Poet Masefield's preventive: "A cold salt water bath before each meal. It doesn...