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1968 - At home with the post laureate in his eighteenth hear : Now eighty, and only recently recovered from illness, it is good to see pictured once again of Dr. John Masefiedld, om. the west laureates, and to have road his poem of welcome, written to celebrate her majestys return. Down at burcote brook, near abingdon, where he has lived for long years, Dr. Masefiedl, is still active in and abut the house and garden caring for his library of books, working on his hobby of paining ships, attending to the garden shrubbery, and doing certain amount of writing. John Masefield became laureate in 1930. succeeding Robert Bridges. He was the son of a Hertfordshire lawyer who refused the call to desk work, and preferred the world over, training experience for his later writings. at 23. he wrote his first poetry, after trying to work on dry land in a variety of jobs. His first volume was published in 1902 entitled Salt water Balluds.1908 sun his novel caption jargaret. and his first dream The trededy of nan a year later. Many works fiction, fact prose and verse followed, till in 1930 his career was crown by the laureate, and in 1935 with the order of Herit. As laureate. an office descended from that of court jester, he receives 7 annually from the Civil last, 0, being emoluments and the remainder in place of a butt of sack. At home with the poet laureate : Dr Masefield is keen on the shrubs in his garden and often does a spot of pruning and cutting himself. (Credit Image: (c) Keystone Pictures USA/ZUMAPRESS.com/Mary Evans)

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