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    John Edward Masefield OM (/ˈmeɪsˌfiːld, ˈmeɪz-/; 1 June 1878 – 12 May 1967) was an English poet and writer, and Poet Laureate from 1930 until 1967. Among...
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  • Laugh and Be Merry is a poem written by the English poet John Masefield. In this poem, the poet wants us to be cheerful and enjoy our life to the fullest...
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  • Series Martin Hyde: The Duke's Messenger, a 1910 historical novel by John Masefield Martin Hyder (born 1961), English actor and writer This disambiguation...
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  • Masefield may refer to: Places Masefield, Saskatchewan People John Masefield (1878-1967), English poet Paul Masefield (b. 1970), English footballer This...
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  • John Masefield. It was first published in 1916 by Macmillan, with illustrations by Charles Pears. Many of the poems had been published in Masefield's...
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  • town of Ledbury, where she attended John Masefield High School. She was born without her right forearm and hand. Johns is from a working-class background...
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    Masefield, John (1921) [1902]. Salt-Water Poems and Ballads. New York, NY: The Macmillan Company. pp. 64–65. Retrieved 21 February 2017. Masefield's original...
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    enclosed her as an anchoress in the church of St. Michael and All Angels. John Masefield clarified these claims, stating that in November 1308, Katherine had...
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  • Poet Laureate in 1968, in succession to John Masefield. His appointment came after appointments secretary John Hewitt consulted with Dame Helen Gardner...
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    Line (ISBN 0-85052-936-0) is a military history book by English poet John Masefield, first published in 1917. The book is a description of the battlefield...
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  • The Box of Delights (category Novels by John Masefield)
    The Box of Delights is a children's fantasy novel by John Masefield. It is a sequel to The Midnight Folk, and was first published in 1935. It is also known...
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    "Sea-Fever" by John Masefield, a formerly much-played Piano Concerto, the hymn tune Love Unknown and the choral motet "Greater Love Hath No Man". John Ireland...
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    The Midnight Folk (category Novels by John Masefield)
    The Midnight Folk is a children's fantasy novel by John Masefield first published in 1927. It is about a boy, Kay Harker, who sets out to discover what...
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  • which was adapted as an Australian TV miniseries Gallipoli, a book by John Masefield about the Gallipoli campaign Gallipoli, a book by Alan Moorehead about...
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    of the Maya calendar John Keats (1795–1821), English romantic poet John le Carré (1931–2020), British-Irish author John Masefield (1878–1967), English...
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  • outbreak of World War II, to composer Ralph Vaughan Williams and poet John Masefield. The award resumed in 1967 following the visit of Queen Elizabeth to...
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  • Davies - Walter de la Mare - John Drinkwater - John Freeman - W. W. Gibson - Robert Graves - Ralph Hodgson - John Masefield - Harold Monro - Robert Nichols...
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    "Dawn", a poem written by Francis Ledwidge "Dawn", a poem written by John Masefield "Dawn", a poem written by William Carlos Williams I Greet the Dawn:...
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    as "rhyme royal", which has been used by Geoffrey Chaucer, John Milton and John Masefield. The poem is set just before the establishment of the Roman...
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  • of the second line "move slow" is another spondee replacing an iamb. John Masefield also uses spondees effectively in the line: Dirty British / coaster...
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    representing Nelson, which was ceremonially unveiled by the then Poet Laureate John Masefield, an alumnus of the school (1891–1893). By 1953 she had already outlived...
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  • voice and piano Vocal 1922 The Seal Man for voice and piano words by John Masefield Winthrop Rogers Boosey & Hawkes Vocal 1924 Three Old English Songs It...
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    The Everlasting Mercy is a poem by John Masefield, the UK's second longest serving poet laureate after Alfred, Lord Tennyson. It was published in 1911...
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    Allgood as Deirdre. John Masefield, who knew Synge, wrote that he "gave one from the first the impression of a strange personality". Masefield said that Synge's...
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  • The Box of Delights is a BBC Television adaptation of John Masefield's 1935 children's fantasy novel The Box of Delights starring Devin Stanfield, Patrick...
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    Training College of Speech and Drama, with the help of poet laureate John Masefield and actors Laurence Olivier and Peggy Ashcroft, who formed part of the...
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    Kipling – Walter Savage Landor – Hon. Emily Lawless – J. C. Mangan – John Masefield – George Meredith – William Morris – Sir Henry Newbolt – Alice Meynell...
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    pale and tender in the moonlight; a colossal rock, hard as diamond." John Masefield wrote: "Cape Horn, that tramples beauty into wreck / And crumples steel...
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  • Piers Torday based on the 1935 children's novel of the same name by John Masefield. The play made its world premiere at Wilton's Music Hall in London (in...
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    sufficiently powerful to persuade Thomas Hardy, Laurence Binyon and John Masefield to compose Arthurian plays, and T. S. Eliot alludes to the Arthur myth...
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