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John Masefield (1878-1967) was one of the very most prolific, popular and successful poets of the twentieth hundred years. Masefield broke after Edwardian literature with the startling work entitled "The Everlasting Mercy," which described the spiritual enlightenment of your drunken poacher. Within the course of his lifetime, he was appointed Poet Laureate and amassed a huge amount of admirers, which included such high-profile labels as John Betjeman, Robert Graves and W.B. Yeats. This collection has 36 poems and spans Masefield's complete career. You can find early on poems from "Salt-Water Ballads" (1902) and "Ballads" (1903), accompanied by ingredients from the narrative poems "The Everlasting Mercy," "Dauber" and "Reynard the Fox." The choice also includes lots of sonnets including "On Growing Old", as well as his poetry on the Romans, alongside lots of rarities.
