Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man it has become the amusement and delight of the few.
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John Masefield
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About John Masefield
John Edward Masefield, OM was an English poet and writer. He was Poet Laureate from 1930 until his death in 1967, during which time he lived at Burcot, Oxfordshire, near Abingdon-on-Thames. Among his best known works are the children's novels The Midnight Folk and The Box of Delights, and the poems "The Everlasting Mercy" and "Sea-Fever". Shortly after his death his house burned down and was later replaced by a Cheshire Home named after him.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by John MasefieldPoetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.
Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain.