John Masefield

It was perhaps EB 's high point as a poet when she had five pieces included in an anthology that also featured work by John Masefield , Walter de la Mare , and Rudyard Kipling .

The Poet Laureate and literary critic John Masefield wrote her obituary for The Times, but the paper, seeing that her works had either gone unnoticed or were now forgotten, refused its publication. The...

Her godmother Aunt Bertha lent her the funds to attend Oxford. She was greatly influenced by the lectures of Gilbert Murray , Regius Professor of Greek, who lectured on Greek drama and had also founded...

At this stage of her life, Rosie's great interest and talent was not writing but painting, like her sister. She set out to make a huge, hanging, illustrated copy of Keats 's Ode to Autumn...

The astronomer Andrew Crommelin , who played a part in discovering the trajectory of Halley's comet, was a cousin of MC . So was Constance Crommelin , who graduated from...

ER was romantically linked to William Archer for most of the 1890s. She also had a long, sometimes antagonistic, sometimes friendly relationship with George Bernard Shaw . In 1909 and 1910, she carried...

Harrow friends of the Robertsons included Irene Stumpp , an employee who cooked German recipes and exercised powers as a medium. The Getting of Wisdom brought HHR personal contact with such writers as John Masefield

RP knew T. S. Eliot well enough to enjoy a courtly encounter with him at a bus stop, but she felt his great innovations had not necessarily been a good thing for English poetry, and...

AB 's correspondents included Ka Arnold-Foster , John Betjeman , E. M. Forster , Margaret Haig Rhondda , Margaret Irwin , John Masefield , Naomi Mitchison , I. A. Richards , Vita Sackville-West , and...

Through her mother's cousin Roger Fry , ED as a girl met many distinguished people as the friends and guests of her parents: W. B. Yeats , Ezra Pound , Henry Newbolt , Mary Coleridge

JMS 's major supporters in his dramatic career were William Butler Yeats and Augusta, Lady Gregory , who ran the Irish National Theatre . Other famous literary supporters included G. K. Chesterton , John Masefield

Poet Laureate John Masefield presided over the event, and gave a speech which MK admired. E. M. Forster also attended the dinner.

HHR 's husband recalled twenty years later how, although average consumers of circulating-library fiction may have been horrified, to young people interested in literary movements this book was a revelation: not merely a new kind...

The novel established FMM 's reputation for precise use of prose, received good reviews, and very nearly won the Polignac Prize.FMM was judged sensitive yet detached, firm and...

John Masefield in the old Dictionary of National Biographymentioned the Cuala Press publication as strange ironical poems, so like the man speaking.