Masefield : John (1878-1967), playwright & novelist; 15th poet laureate of England.
... go down with the public." It is no wonder that people don't read poetry these days: the Modernists are responsible for it, I suppose. NIRODBARAN: Harin's poems were sent to Masefield?. SRI AUROBINDO: Why to Masefield? NIRODBARAN: Perhaps because he is the poet-laureate. SRI AUROBINDO: Poet-laureate! Anybody can be a poet laureate. The only people of real worth to whom the title was given ...
... written anything in prose it is better to publish it first and then the poems may go." Disciple : Harin's poems were sent to Masefield but got only lukewarm praise from him. He said they were "interesting". Sri Aurobindo : Why were they sent to Masefield? Disciple : Perhaps, because he was the poet Laureate. Sri Aurobindo : Generally Poet-Laureates are uninteresting : ...
... jerks or complicated jumps; not even when a semblance of formal dignity is kept and there is no cutting up of lines and phrases and even words to make a Cummings-holiday. We cannot expect even a Masefield to come off with flying colours where a Browning has failed: Browning with his vehement genius tried the effects of expressive cacophony and proved to his own cost that, though he could sometimes ...
... universe", there are more rewarding approaches still, namely the moral and psychological and the analogical and symbolical. The 'moral' and 'psychological' approach attempts to find in myths what John Masefield has called (though in a Shakespearian context) lessons in "deportment on life's scaffold", looking at mythology as though it is but "an exteriorisation of events in the psyche". 27 The analogica ...
... "The terrific achievement of modern English and American poets" which my correspondent speaks of in support of his scientific modernity is, I fear, pretty poor when compared to the work of Bridges, Masefield, Gordon Bottomley, Lascelles Abercrombie, AE and Yeats - none of them pledged whole-heartedly to science. Yeats is acknowledged universally as the greatest English poet of our age. What does ...
... completeness, unlike the fantastic free verse and violent excess of word-vision several contemporary poets are practising — rather poetasters, for Yeats and AE and, at their best, Abercrombie and Masefield are in the great tradition of English poetry. But the lines are spoiled none the less by their too patent intellectuality and striving after flamboyant effect. In modern poetry, much that ...
... —writers with whom he is in close poetical sympathy or for whom he has a strong appreciation; certain names which have come over to our ears with some flourish of the trumpets of renown, Thompson, Masefield, Hardy, do not occur at all or only in a passing allusion. But still the book deals among contemporary poets with Tagore, A. E. and Yeats, among recent poets with Stephen Phillips, Meredith, Carpenter ...
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