John Masefield

Standard Name: Masefield, John

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Author summary Kate O'Brien
KOB , twentieth-century Irish writer, was successively a journalist, playwright, novelist, essayist, travel writer, and biographer. She was, she said, influenced by the singing voice and by dance music. Masefield said, Don't despise dance music...
Reception Charlotte Mew
CM was awarded a Civil List pension of £75 a year on the recommendation of John Masefield , Thomas Hardy , and Walter de la Mare .
Monro, Alida, and Charlotte Mew. “Charlotte Mew—A Memoir”. Collected Poems of Charlotte Mew, Gerald Duckworth, p. vii - xx.
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Stanford, Donald E., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 19. Gale Research.
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Reception Vita Sackville-West
VSW was one of those in the running for the position of Poet Laureate in succession to Robert Bridges in summer1929. She later secretly hoped to succeed Bridges' successor, John Masefield , and wrote a...
Textual Production Muriel Spark
MS published her critical biography John Masefield, with an introduction describing her visit to him in December 1950.
Rees, David. Muriel Spark, William Trevor, Ian McEwan, A Bibliography of their First Editions. Colophon Press.
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Spark, Muriel. Curriculum Vitae: Autobiography. Constable.
197
Textual Production Storm Jameson
Decades later she remembered praising Chekhov , Hoffmansthal , Ibsen , and Strindberg , while admitting that I mocked, censured, rebuked, tore down, with reckless delight, Shaw , Yeats , Masefield ,
Jameson, Storm. Journey from the North. Harper and Row.
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and other British dramatists.
Textual Production Storm Jameson
Jameson had been approached by the Ministry of Information once the USA had entered World War II, for suggestions on how to cement Anglo-American relations.
Jameson, Storm. Journey from the North. Harper and Row.
524
The resulting volume includes work by Phyllis Bentley ,...
Textual Production Flora Macdonald Mayor
It appeared with a preface by John Masefield . The novel is written as a response to the social convention (for most an economic necessity) which bore on Mayor herself, that women's primary duty was...
Textual Production Ann Bridge
Some of her poems and sketches were sent at this time to the poet John Masefield , whose brother was a family friend. He advised writing a novel, but by that time AB had got...
Textual Production Muriel Spark
Planning a book about the poet John Masefield , MS visited him at his house on a freezing day, and heard him read his work.
Baldwin, Dean, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 139. Gale Research.
139: 229
Spark, Muriel. Curriculum Vitae: Autobiography. Constable.
197

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