citato in Selezione dal Reader's Digest, febbraio 1976
Frasi di John Masefield
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John Masefield
Data di nascita: 1. Giugno 1878
Data di morte: 12. Maggio 1967
John Edward Masefield, OM , è stato un poeta e scrittore inglese, che ricoprì la carica di Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom dal 1930 alla sua morte nel 1967. Egli è ricordato soprattutto per i classici della narrativa per l'infanzia The Midnight Folk e The Box of Delights, e per i suoi poemi, che includono The Everlasting Mercy e Sea-Fever. Wikipedia
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Frasi John Masefield
Ballads and Poems (1910), "Captain Stratton's Fancy"
King Cole and Other Poems (1926), " The Rider at the Gate http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/1251.html"
Salt-Water Ballads (1902), "Trade Winds"
Ballads and Poems (1910), " C. L. M. http://theotherpages.org/poems/masef01.html"
„My blood did leap, my flesh did revel,
Saul Kane was tokened to the devil.“
— John Masefield, The Everlasting Mercy
The Everlasting Mercy (1919)
" Where does the uttered Music go? http://www.williamwalton.net/works/choral/where_does_the_uttered_music_go.html" (1946)
Salt-Water Ballads (1902), "The West Wind"
Ballads and Poems (1910), " C. L. M. http://theotherpages.org/poems/masef01.html"
The first line is often misquoted as "I must go down to the seas again." and this is the wording used in the song setting by John Ireland. I disagree with this last point. The poet himself was recorded reading this and he definitely says "seas". The first line should read, 'I must down ...' not, 'I must go down ...' The original version of 1902 reads 'I must down to the seas again'. In later versions, the author inserted the word 'go'.
Source: https://poemanalysis.com/sea-fever-john-masefield-poem-analysis/
Salt-Water Ballads (1902), "Sea-Fever"
— John Masefield, The Everlasting Mercy
Opening lines
The Everlasting Mercy (1919)
Ballads and Poems (1910), "Spanish Waters"
