Contents

Introduction (1991)

Introduction (1952)

1 Masefield’s Achievement

2 The Man and the Vision

3 Early Poems

4 The Narrative Poems: An Introductory Note

5 ‘The Everlasting Mercy’

6 ‘Dauber’

7 ‘Reynard the Fox’

8 The Narrative Prose

Afterword, by Michael Schmidt

Selected Books by John Masefield

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