John Masefield

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...

CM was awarded a Civil List pension of £75 a year on the recommendation of John Masefield , Thomas Hardy , and Walter de la Mare .

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...

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 , and other British dramatists.

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. The resulting volume includes work by Phyllis Bentley ,...

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...

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...

Planning a book about the poet John Masefield , MS visited him at his house on a freezing day, and heard him read his work.

MS published her critical biography John Masefield, with an introduction describing her visit to him in December 1950.