Narrative poem

Discover Pinterest’s best ideas and inspiration for Narrative poem. Get inspired and try out new things.
1k people searched this
·
Last updated 1w
Ballad Poem, Long A Sound, Egypt Temple, John Masefield, Narrative Poem, Cape Horn, Teaching Poetry, Poems For Him, Inspirational Poems

John Masefield, (born June 1, 1878, Ledbury, Herefordshire, Eng.—died May 12, 1967, near Abingdon, Berkshire), poet, best known for his poems of the sea, Salt-Water Ballads (1902, including “Sea Fever” and “Cargoes”), and for his long narrative poems, such as The Everlasting Mercy (1911), which shocked literary orthodoxy with its phrases of a colloquial coarseness hitherto unknown in 20th-century English verse. Educated at King’s School, Warwick, Masefield was apprenticed aboard a…

269

Related interests