The Story of a Round-House and Other Poems
Book Details
| Title: | The Story of a Round-House and Other Poems | ||||||||||
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| Published: | 1915 | ||||||||||
| Publisher: | The Macmillan Company | ||||||||||
| Tags: | fiction, poetry | ||||||||||
| Description: | ...the invisible root of its deep poetry is that fine power which Whitman called Friendship, the genius of sympathetic imagination. This is the force that knits the sinews of the chief, the life-size figure of the book. Dauber is the tale of a man and his work. It is the story of an artist in the making. The heroic struggles of an English Farmer's son of twenty-one to become a painter of ships and the ocean, form the drama of the poem. —Edith Wyatt, February 1913 [Suggest a different description.] |
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| Downloads: | 179 | ||||||||||
| Pages: | 104  |
Author Bio for Masefield, John
John Masefield (June 1, 1878—May 12, 1967) was an English poet, writer and the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1930 until 1967.
He is best known for his poems of the sea, Salt-Water Ballads (1902, including "Sea Fever" and "Cargoes"), and for his long narrative poems, such as The Everlasting Mercy (1911), which shocked literary orthodoxy with its phrases of a colloquial coarseness hitherto unknown in 20th-century English verse.
Masefield was born in Ledbury, Herefordshire, England. After his father's death he was looked after by an uncle. Young Masefield wanted to be a merchant marine officer. At 13 he boarded the training ship Conway moored in the river Mersey. After two and a half years on the school ship he was apprenticed aboard a sailing ship that was bound for Chile by way of Cape Horn. In Chile he became ill and had to return to England by steamer. He left...
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