Masefield had gone to sea as a boy, and these ballads speak in the voices of common sailors: the yarn of the Loch Achray, a burial party, a fever ship, the bosun’s tales. The opening Consecration dedicates the book to the ranker and the stoker rather than to princes, and the collection includes Sea-Fever.
The first book of a future Poet Laureate, salt-stained and full of song. Download the free EPUB.