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Sea-Fever: Selected Poems

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Sea Fever remains one of the most popular poems of the last century, and John Masefield one of the most popular poets, a superb spinner of yarns and ballads of tall ships, exotic seas, of the deep-rooted life of rural England, and of the great narratives of Troy and Arthurian legend. This book his most popular poems and a few previously uncollected rarities. All share Masefields love of particular lives: he draws the reader into his stories with incomparable music of language. This is a representative selection of the poems, in chronological sequence spanning his long career. The editor also provides a full introduction to his work.

John Masefield (1878-1967) was born in Ledbury, Herefordshire. He was orphaned at an early age and, after a brief period at the King’s School, Warwick, was educated aboard the Liverpool school-ship Conway. Masefield was appointed poet laureate in 1930.

• John Masefield’s ballads of tall ships and exotic seas reissued as a Carcanet Classic

• Was Poet Laureate from 1930 until his death in 1967

• Masefield, one of the most popular British poets of last century, was a superb spinner of yarns of the sea and the deep-rooted life of rural England, and of the narratives of Troy and Arthurian legend• Collects his most popular poems and a few previously uncollected rarities, including his best-loved poems ‘Cargoes’ and ‘Sea-Fever’

• This selection is a chronological sequence spanning his long career, with a full introduction to his work by editor Philip Errington

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