This is from my friend Rick Storey:
It is my view that Masefield is an overlooked and much underestimated writer, that is not to say he is without his weaknesses but he has immense strengths too. Apart from his love of the sea he was scientifically literate, astronomically knowledgable, and he was keen on boxing - see his long narrative poem "The Everlasting Mercy".
Here are lines from Masefield's long almost epic poem "The Wanderer" -
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"Therefore go forth, Companion,
until you find no highway more,
no track, all being blind
the way to go will linger
in the mind."
I don't want to overstate the case for a reappraisal of JM but it is time his work was looked at again I feel.
Cheers,
Rick
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