Before she published her distinguished novels, Muriel Spark first
made her name as a critic and poet. Her discerning study of the
poet and novelist John Masfield will therefore be doubly welcome,
as an example of her earlier work, and as one of the best
introductions to Masefield. With characteristic insight, Spark
shows Masfield's development as a storyteller, through his early
lyrics to his long narrative poems and finally his prose, together
with his gift for observation of the life around him. John
Masefield (1878-1967) lived a life as varied as his work. At the
age of fifteen he went to sea as an apprentice in a windjammer and
made the voyage round Cape Horn. The next three years he spent in
New York, in a bakery, a livery stable, a saloon and a carpet
factory. Back in England, he wrote for the Guardian and in the
First World War served with the Red Cross. Throughout these years
he had been writing poetry, and when in 1923 his Collected Poems
appeared they sold over 200,000 copies. In 1930 he succeeded Robert
Bridges as Poet Laureate.He was a prodigious novelist, essayist and
poet; among his best known works are The Everlasting Mercy, Dauber,
Reynard the Fox, Sard Marker and The Midnight Folk. 'I feel a large
amount of my writing on him can be applied generally', wrote Spark
in 1992: 'It is in many ways a statement of my position as a
literary critic and I hope some readers will recognise it as such.'
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