Male : Poet and novelist. Went to America aged 17 and worked at various jobs until 1897 when he returned to England. Married Constance de la Cherois Crommelin, a schoolteacher, in 1903. From 1909-10 he had a passionate affair with Elizabeth Robins and supported women's suffrage. Poet Laureate 1930-1967

Nationality : English Place of Birth : Ledbury, Herefordshire

Date of Birth : 1878 Date of Death : 1967 Age : 89

Other Work : Merchant Navy

Education : Kings School, Warwick

1902-1906
Salt Water Ballads (1902 Grant Richards - 500 copies)
(1913 Elkin Mathews 3/6) - 1500 (1913 Macmillan US)
Ballads (1903 Elkin Mathews Vigo Cabinet Series No 13 - 762 copies) (1910 Elkin Mathews. Rev Ed)
A Mainsail Haul (1905 Elkin Mathews 1/-) - frontis by Jack Butler Yeats. 1000
(1913 Macmillan US)
(Ed) Lyrists of the Restoration (1905 Grant Richards) - with Constance Masefield
Sea Life in Nelson's Time (1905 Methuen) (1937 Macmillan US)
On the Spanish Main (1906 Methuen)
(Ed) Essays Moral and Polite (1906 Grant Richards) - with Constance Masefield
(Ed) The Poems of Robert Herrick (1906 Grant Richards)
Multitude and Solitude (1906 Grant Richards)
(Ed) A Sailor's Garland (1906 Methuen)
(Ed) Dampier's Voyages (1906 Grant Richards) - 2 vols
(Ed) Lyrics of Ben Jonson, Beaumont & Fletcher (1906 Grant Richards)

1907-1910
(Ed) An English Prose Miscellany (1907 Methuen)
(Ed) Defoe (1907 George Bell)
A Tarpaulin Muster (1907 Grant Richards) (1908 B W Dodge, US)
The Tragedy of Nan (1908)
Captain Margaret (1908 Grant Richards) (1908 GR, US) (1909 Lippincott) - [1st Novel]
The Tragedy of Nan and Other Plays (1909 Mitchell Kennerley US - 10 copies)
(1909 Grant Richards - 500) (1911 Mitchell Kennerley US - 400 copies)
Multitude and Solitude (1909 Grant Richards) (1910 Mitchell Kennerley, US)
My Faith in Woman Suffrage (1910 The Woman's Press)
The Tragedy of Pompey the Great (1910 Sidgwick & Jackson - 718 copies) (1914 Macmillan US)
Martin Hyde, the Duke's Messenger (1910 Little Brown) (1910 Wells Gardner Darton)
- T C Dugdale
A Book of Discoveries (1910 Wells Gardner Darton) (1910 F A Stokes US)
- Gordon Browne
Lost Endeavour (1910 Nelson) (1917 Macmillan US) - frontis Stephen Reid
Ballads and Poems (1910 Elkin Mathews) - 2008
[An enlarged edition of Ballads first published in 1903]

1911-1915
The Everlasting Mercy (1911 John Masefield - 12 copies) (1911 Sidgwick & Jackson)
(1912 Macmillan US)
The Street of Today (1911 Dent) (1911 Dutton)
Jim Davis or The Captive of Smugglers (1911 Wells Gardner) (1913 Grosset & Dunlap US)
William Shakespeare (1911 Williams & Norgate, Home University Library) (1911 Henry Holt)
Jim Davis or The Captive of Smugglers (1912 F A Stokes, US) - Edwin Megargee
The Everlasting Mercy & The Widow in the Bye Street (1912 Macmillan US)
The Widow in the Bye Street (1912 Sidgwick & Jackson) (1912 S & J 2nd Thousand)
(1912 S & J 3rd Thousand)
The Story of a Round House & other Poems (contains "Dauber") (1912 Macmillan US)
The Daffodil Fields (1913 Macmillan US) (1913 Bell & Cockburn, Canada) (1913 Heinemann)
Dauber (1913 Heinemann) (1913 Bell & Cockburn, Canada)
Philip the King & Other Poems (1914 Heinemann) (1914 Macmillan US) - frontis William Strang
The Faithful : A Tragedy in Three Acts (1915 Heinemann) (1915 Macmillan US)
John M Synge (1915 Cuala Press, Dublin - 350 copies) (1915 Macmillan US - 650)
(1916 Doubleday) (1916 John Masefield)

1916-1920
The Locked Chest; The Sweeps of Ninety Eight (1916 Garden City Press - 200 copies)
(1916 Macmillan US - 825) (1917 Macmillan)
Gallipoli (1916 Heinemann) (1916 Macmillan US)
Sonnets (1916 Macmillan) - 800 numbered of which 500 signed
Sonnets & Poems (1916 Garden City Press, US - 200 copies) (1916 John Masefield)
Good Friday and Other Poems (1916 Macmillan) (1916 Garden City Press, US - 200)
(1916 John Masefield)
Salt Water Poems and Ballads (1916 Macmillan US) - Charles Pears
The Cold Cotswolds (1917 Express printing Works, Cambridge) - 4pp no cover
The Old Front Line (1917 Macmillan US) (1917 Heinemann)
Lollingdon Downs & Other Poems (1917 Macmillan US - 950 copies) (1917 Heinemann)
Anne Pedersdotter (1917 Little Brown US) (1926 Brentano's US as "The Witch")
Rosas (1918 Macmillan - 950 copies) (1918 Macmillan - 750 numbered & signed)
A Poem and Two Plays (1918 Heinemann) - first UK appearance of "Rosas"
The War and the Future (1918 Macmillan US) (1919 heinemann at "St George and the Dragon")
Reynard the Fox or The Ghost Heath Run (1919 Macmillan US) (1919 Heinemann)
Reynard the Fox or The Ghost Heath Run (1919 Heinemann) - 275 numbered & signed
The Battle of the Somme (1919 PP - 268 copies)
Animula (1920 John Masefield / Chiswick Press) - 250 numbered & signed
Enslaved & Other Poems (1920 Heinemann) - 275 numbered & signed (1920 Macmillan US)
Right Royal (1920 Macmillan US) (1920 Heinemann)
Reynard the Fox or The Ghost Heath Run (1920 Macmillan US) - Carton Moore Park
John Ruskin (1920 Yellowsands Press / Bembridge School - 150)

1921-1922
Right Royal (1921 Heinemann) - 525 numbered & signed
A Foundation Day Address (1921 Yellowsands Press / Bembridge School - 250)
Reynard the Fox or The Ghost Heath Run (1921 Heinemann)
(1921 Heinemann - 380 numbered & Signed) - G D Armour
King Cole (1921 Heinemann 780 copies signed & Numbered. Judith Masefield
King Cole (1921 Macmillan US) - 3000 copies signed & Numbered. Judith Masefield
Esther [Adapted from Racine] (1922 Heinemann - 1250 copies) (1922 Heinemann - 750 copies)
Esther and Berenice (1922 Macmillan US)
Berenice (1922 Heinemann - 2000 copies)
The Dream (1922 Heinemann) - 750 numbered & signed. Judith Masefield
The Dream (1922 Macmillan US) - 750 numbered & signed. Judith Masefield
The Dream (1923 Macmillan US)
Selected Poems (1922 Heinemann) (1923 Macmillan US) - frontis W Strang
Selected Poems (1922 Heinemann) - 530 numbered & signed. frontis L Anning Bell
Melloney Holtspur or the Pangs of Love (1922 Heinemann) (1922 Macmillan NY - 1000 signed)
(1922 Heinemann - 530 numbered & signed) (1923 Macmillan US)
Right Royal (1922 Heinemann) - Cecil Aldin
Right Royal (1922 Heinemann) - 375 signed by author & Cecil Aldin

1923
Selected Poems (1923 Macmillan US) - 400 numbered & signed
The Taking of Helen (1923 H) - 780 signed (1923 Macmillan NY)
The Taking of Helen (1923 Heinemann - 780 numbered)
(1923 Macmillan US - 750 numbered & Signed) (1924 Macmillan US)
The Taking of Helen and Other Prose Selections (1924 Macmillan US)
Collected Poems (1923 Heinemann) (1923 Heinemann - leather binding)
Collected Poems (1923 Heinemann) - 530 numbered & signed
King Cole and Other Poems (1923 Heinemann)
A King's Daughter (1923 Macmillan US) (1923 London) (1923 Heinemann - 280 numbered & signed)

1924
Sard Harker (1924 Heinemann) - 380 numbered & signed (1924 Macmillan US)
Recent Prose (1924 Heinemann) (1933 Macmillan US)
Shakespeare and Spiritual Life (1924 Clarendon Press, Oxford)
(1924 Clarendon - 200 signed) (1973 Folcroft US)
Jim Davis or The Captive of Smugglers (1924 Wells Gardner Darton) - Mead Schaeffer
With the Living Voice (1925 Heinemann) - 265 signed copies
The Trial of Jesus (1925 Heinemann) (1925 Macmillan US) (1925 Heinemann - 530 numbered & signed)

1926-1928
Odtaa : A Novel (1926 Macmillan US) (1926 Heinemann) - 275 Numbered & signed
Sonnets of Good Cheer (1926 Mendip Press) - 400 copies in vellum wrappers
(1926 mendip - 50 signed copies)
The Tragedy of Nan (1926 Heinemann)
Philip the King (1927 Heinemann) - 375 numbered & signed Laurence Irving (1927 Macmillan US)
The Midnight Folk (1927 Heinemann - 265 numbered & signed)
(1927 Macmillan US - 250 numbered & signed)
The Midnight Folk (1927 Macmillan US) (1927 Heinemann)
Tristan and Isolt (1927 Heinemann) (1927 Heinemann - 275 numbered & signed)
(1927 Macmillan NY - 350 signed)
Midsummer Night & Other Tales in Verse (1928 Heinemann) - 275 numbered & signed
(1928 Macmillan NY - 150 signed)
The Coming of Christ (1928 Macmillan - 350 numbered & signed) (1928 Heinemann)
(1928 Heinemann - 275 numbered & signed) (1928 Macmillan US)
Oxford Recitations (1928 Macmillan US)
Any Dead to Any Living (1928 John Masefield / Yale Review - 25 copies)

1929-1930
Easter (1929 Macmillan US - 100 numbered & signed) (1929 Heinemann) (1929 Heinemann - 375)
The Hawbucks (1929 Heinemann, UK & Macmillan US) - 275 numbered & signed
South and East (1929 Medici Society) - 2750. Jacynth Parsons
South and East (1929 Medici Society) - 260 numbered & signed by Masefield & Jacynth Parsons
South and East (1929 Macmillan US & Medici Society) (1929 Macmillan US - 400 signed)
The Wanderer of Liverpool (1930 Heinemann) - d/w painting by Jack Spurling
The Wanderer of Liverpool (1930 Heinemann) - 525 numbered, signed & boxed
The Wanderer of Liverpool (1930 Heinemann) - de luxe edition
The Wanderer of Liverpool (1930 Heinemann) - 1st trade edition
The Wanderer of Liverpool (1930 Macmillan US) - 350 numbered and signed
Poems of the Wanderer : The Edning (1930 John Masefield - 25 copies numbered and signed)
Speech after Receiving the Freedom of the City of hereford (1930 John Masefield)
Speech at a Festival in Honour of W B Yeats (1930 John Masefield)

1931-1932
Chaucer (1931 CUP) (1931 Macmillan US)
Poetry (1931 Heinemann) (1931 Heinemann - 275 Numbered) (1932 Macmillan US)
The Midnight Folk (1931 Heinemann) - Rowland Hilder
Reynard the Fox or The Ghost Heath Run (1931 Heinemann)
- 25 copies. pen & ink drawings by author
Chaucer : The Leslie Stephen Lecture Delivered at Cambridge, 3 March 1931 (1931)
Minnie Maylow's Story & Other Tales (1931 Heinemann) - 375 signed & numbered
(1931 Macmillan NY) - 350 numbered & signed
A Tale of Troy (1932 Macmillan US) (1932 Heinemann)

1933-1935
The Bird of Dawning, or The Fortune of the Sea (1933 Heinemann, UK & Macmillan US)
Words and Verses Spoken at Bemerton Rectory (1933 John Masefield)
The Conway (1933 Heinemann) (1933 Macmillan US)
The Bird of Dawning, or The Fortune of the Sea (1933 Heinemann)
- 300 numbered & signed. Claude Muncaster
End and Beginning (1933 Heinemann - 275) (1933 Macmillan US) (1934 Heinemann)
The Taking of the Grey (1934 Heinemann) - 175 numbered & signed) (1934 Macmillan US)
A Box of Delights, or When the Wolves were Running (1935 Heinemann) (1935 Macmillan US)
- Judith Masefield
Victorious Troy or The Hurrying Angel (1935 Heinemann) - 125 numbered & signed
(1935 Macmillan US) - d/w Kenneth Shoesmith

1936-1938
Eggs and Baker, or The Days of Trial (1936 Heinemann, UK & Macmillan US)
+ 125 numbered & signed
A Letter from Pontus & Other Verse (1936 Heinemann) - 100 numbered & signed
(1936 Macmillan US)
Lines on the Tercentenary of Harvard University (1937 Macmillan - 250 signed & numbered)
(1937 Macmillan)
Lines Spoekn by John Masefield at the Tercentenary of Harvard University
(1937 Macmillan - 150 numbered & signed)
The Country Scene (1937 Collins) - Edward Seago
(1937 Collins - 50 numbered & signed by author & Edward Seago )
The Country Scene (1938 Collins US) - unillustrated
The Square Peg (1937 Heinemann) (1937 Macmillan US)
A Tribute to Ballet (1938 Collins) (1938 Macmillan US) - Edward Seago
(1938 Collins - 100 numbered & signed)
Dead Ned : The Autobiography of a Corpse (1938 Macmillan US) (1938 Heinemann)

1939-1940
Some Verses to Some Germans (1939 Heinemann) (1939 Macmillan US)
Live and Kicking Ned (1939 Heinemann) (1939 Macmillan US)
Basilissa : A Tale of the Empress Theodora (1940 Macmillan US) (1940 Heinemann)
Some Memories of W B Yeats (1940 Macmillan US) (1940 Cuala Press, Dublin - 370 numbered)

1941-1945
Gautama the Enlightened & Other Verses (1941 Heinemann) (1941 Macmillan US)
Shopping in Oxford (1941 Heinemann - 500 numbered)
The Nine Days Wonder (1941 Heinemann) (1941 Macmillan US)
In the Mill (1941 Heinemann) (1941 Macmillan US)
Conquer (1941 Heinemann) (1941 Macmillan US)
Land Workers (1942 Heinemann) (1943 Macmillan US)
A Generation Risen (1942 Collins) (1943 Macmillan US) - Edward Seago
Natalie Maisie and Pavilastukay : Two Tales in Verse (1942 Heinemann 6/-) (1942 Macmillan US)
Wonderings (1943 Heinemann) (1943 Macmillan US)
I Want! I Want ! (1944 Nat Book Council) (1944 Macmillan)
New Chum (1944 Heinemann) (1945 Macmillan US)
A Macbeth Production (1945 Heinemann 6/-) (1946 Macmillan)

1946 - 1950
Reynard the Fox : with Selected Sonnets and Lyrics (1946 Heinemann)
Thanks Before Going (1946 Heinemann) (1947 Macmillan US)
A Reply to the Toast of Honorary Graduands at the Univ of Sheffield (1946 John Masefield)
Thanks Before Going with Other Gratitude for Old Delight (1947 Heinemann)
Badon Parchments : A Novel (1947 Heinemann 8/6)
A Book of Both Sorts (1947 Heinemann)
Trade Winds (1948 Sheffield United Steel Companies) - 150 signed
A Play of St George (1948 Heinemann) (1948 Macmillan US)
On the Hill (1949 Heinemann 8/6) (1949 Macmillan US)
A Book of Prose Selections (1950 Heinemann)
In Praise of Nurses (1950 Heinemann) - 4pp in an envelope (1950 Macmillan US)
(Ed) My Favourite English Poems (1950 Heinemann)

1951 - 1960
St Catherine of Ledbury and Other Ledbury Papers (1951 Heinemann)
(1951 Heinemann - 250 Numbered & Signed)
The Ledbury Scene as I Have Used it in My Verse (1951 Jakemans, Hereford - 250 signed & numbered)
So Long to Learn (1952 Heinemann) (1952 Macmillan US)
An Elizabethan Theatre in London (1954 John Masefield)
Words Spoken at the Unveiling of the Memorials to Keats & Shelley (1954 John Masefield)

1961-1970
The Bluebells and Other Verse (1961 Heinemann) (1961 Macmillan US)
The Western Hudson Shore (1962 PP by Corliss Lamont) (1982 Oliphant Press)
Old Raiger & other Verse (1964 Heinemann) (1964 Macmillan US)
In Glad Thanksgiving (1966 Heinemann) (1966 Macmillan US)
Grace Before Ploughing (1966 Heinemann) (1966 Macmillan US)

1971 Onwards
The Twenty Five Days (1972 Heinemann)
The Sea Poems (1978 Heinemann / The Marine Society)
Selected Poems (1978 Heinemann) (1978 Macmillan US) - intro by John Betjeman
Letters to Florence Lamont (1979 Macmillan) (1979 Columbia University)
Letters to Reyna (1983 Buchan & Enright)
Selected Poems (1984 Carcanet Press pb) - edited by Donald Stanford
Letters from the Front 1915-1917 (1984 Constable) (1985 Franklin Watts US) - ed by Peter Vansittart
Letters to Margaret Bridges (1984 Carcanet) - ed by Donald Stanford
Brangwen (1988 Book Guild) (1988 Prometheus Books, US) - ed by John Gregory
Arthurian Poets : John Masefield (1994 D S Brewer £35) (1994 Boydell pb £14.95)

READING
Cecil Biggane : John Masefield - A Study (1924 Heffer)
Charles H Simmons : A Bibliography of John Masefield (1930 Columbia UP) - 800
L A G Strong : John Masefield (1952 British Council)
Muriel Spark : John Masefield (1953 Peter Nevill)
(Ed) G Handley-Taylor : John Masefield - A Bibliography (1960 Cranbrook Tower)
Corlis Lamont : Remembering John Masefield (1972 Kaye & Ward) (1991 Continuum Publ, US pb)
Draser Drew : John Masefield's England (1973 Associated University Presses)
Constance Babington Smith : John Masefield - A Life (1978 OUP)
Crocker Wright : John Masefield - A Bibliographical Description of his First, Limited,
Signed & Special editions (1986 Boston Atheneum, US) - 500