John Masefield
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John Masefield (1878-1967) was an English poet and writer, born in Ledbury, Herefordshire. He trained at sea aboard HMS Conway and worked on voyages and in New York before deciding to become a writer. His first collection, Salt-Water Ballads (1902), included the poem "Sea-Fever", and he became known for narrative poems such as The Everlasting Mercy (1911). He served as Poet Laureate from 1930 until his death in 1967 and received the Shakespeare Prize in 1938. Alongside his poetry he wrote novels, plays and autobiographies, among them the adult novels Sard Harker (1924) and The Bird of Dawning (1933) and the children's novels The Midnight Folk (1927) and The Box of Delights (1935).
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- Core Canon books: 2
- Current rank: #834 in the official ranking
- Weighted average: 3.87
- Award recognitions: None recorded
Books
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- Total Core Canon books across all universes: 2 books
- Award recognitions across all universes: 0 (None recorded)
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