Author:John Masefield

John Masefield
(1878–1967)

John Masefield

Works

Poetry

• Salt-Water Ballads (1902) (external scan)
• Ballads (1903)
• Ballads and Poems (1910)
• The Everlasting Mercy (1911)
• Dauber (1912)
• The Story of a Round House and Other Poems (1912, with new and revised edition in 1913) Includes "Dauber".
• The Daffodil Fields (1913)
• Good Friday and other poems (1916) Includes the dramatic poem, "Good Friday" followed by numerous sonnets.
• Philip the King and Other Poems (1916)
• Salt-Water Poems and Ballads (1916) (transcription project)
• Sonnets (1916)
• Sonnets and poems (1916)
• Lollingdon Downs and other poems (1917)
• Lollingdon Downs and Other Poems with Sonnets (1917)^[1]
• Rosas (1918)
• Enslaved and Other Poems (1920)
• Selected Poems (1922)
• The Dream (1922)
• King Cole and Other Poems (1923)
• The Collected Poems of John Masefield (1923) (external scan)
• Poems (1925)
• Midsummer Night and Other Tales in Verse (1928)
• A Letter from Pontus and Other Verse (1936)
• The Country Scene (1937)
• Some Verses to Some Germans (1939)
• The Bluebells and Other Verses (1961)
• Old Raiger and Other Verses (1964)
• In Glad Thanksgiving (1966)

Poems

• A Ballad of John Silver
• The Ballad of Sir Bors
• Beauty
• Bill
• Biography
• Burial-Party
• Captain Stratton's Fancy
• Cargoes
• Christmas, 1903
• C. L. M.
• A Consecration
• A Creed
• Dauber (1913)
  • Glossary for Dauber
• Evening - Regatta Day
• The Everlasting Mercy
• Fragments
• The Golden City of St. Mary
• Hell's Pavement
• Laugh And Be Merry
• London Town
• Mother Carey
• A Night at Dago Tom's
• An Old Song Re-sung
• On Eastnor Knoll
• A Pier-Head Chorus
• Posted as Missing
• Reynard The Fox Part I
• Reynard The Fox Part II
• Roadways
• St. Mary's Bells
• Sea-Change
• Sea-Fever
• The Seekers
• Sing a Song o' Shipwreck
• A Song at Parting
• Sorrow of Mydath
• Spanish Waters
• Tewkesbury Road
• Trade Winds
• A Valediction
• Vision
• The Wanderer
• A Wanderer's Song
• The Watch in the Wood
• The West Wind
• Beauty's Mirror
• The Wild Duck
• The Word
• The Yarn of the Loch Achray

Anthologised

• 'Masefield, John', The Year's at the Spring, 1920. Illustrated by Harry Clarke.
  • Sea Fever p. 41; Tewkesbury Road p. 43; The West Wind p. 45.

• From A treasury of war poetry, British and American poems of the world war, 1914-1919 (1917):
  • "The Choice", p. 133; "The Island of Skyros", p. 380.

Novels and Short Stories

• A Mainsail Haul (1905)
• A Tarpaulin Muster (1907) (transcription project)
• Captain Margaret (1908)
• Multitude and Solitude (1909)
• Martin Hyde: The Duke’s Messenger (1910)
• Lost Endeavour (1910)
• The Street of Today (1911)
• Jim Davis (1911)
• Sard Harker (1924)
• Odtaa (1926)
• The Hawbucks (1929)
• The Wanderer of Liverpool (1930)
• A Tale of Troy (1932)
• The Bird of Dawning (1933)
• The Taking of the Gry (1934)
• Victorious Troy (1935)
• Eggs and Baker (1936)
• The Square Pegg: or The Gun Fella (1937)
• Dead Ned (1938)
• Live and Kicking Ned (1939)
• Basilissa: A Tale of the Empress Theodora (1940)
• Conquer: A Tale of the Nika Rebellion in Byzantium (1941)
• Badon Parchments (1947)

Anthologised

• The Devil and the Old Man. Devil stories, an anthology. M. Rudwin, ed. New York: Knopf. 1921

Plays

• The Campden Wonder (1907)
• Mrs. Harrison (1907)
• The Tragedy of Nan (1909)
• The Tragedy of Pompey the Great (1910)
• The Faithful (1915)
• Good Friday: a dramatic poem (1915)
• The Locked Chest (1916, writ in 1906)
• The Sweeps of Ninety-Eight (1916, writ in 1906)
• Melloney Holtspur (1922)
• The Trial of Jesus (1925)
• The Coming of Christ (1928)

Source: [1]

Children's Books

• The Midnight Folk (1927)
• The Box of Delights (1935)

Non-fiction

• William Shakespeare (1911)
• John M. Synge: A Few Personal Recollections, with Biographical Notes (1915)
• Gallipoli (1916) (transcription project)
• The Old Front Line (1917)
• The War and the Future (1918) (transcription project)
• "Synge, John Millington," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1912) in 3 vols.
• Chaucer (Leslie Stephen Lecture, 1931)

Works about Masefield

• Masefield, a poem by Florence Earle Coates (The North American Review, May 1922)
• John Masefield, by Stuart Sherman, Laurence Stallings, Arthur Guiterman and John Farrar (1929)

Transcription projects

• Index:Two poems by John Masefield - Griffes.djvu

Notes

1. Contains all poems from Sonnets and poems (1916), and all but two poems from Lollingdon Downs and other poems (1917). Added is one poem entitled, "The Ship" (which has an alternate title of "The Ship and Her Makers" in other volumes). The 'missing' poems are "O wretched man, that, for a little mile" and "Night is on the downland, on the lonely moorland".