John Masefield, English author and poet (died 1967)

John Masefield

English poet and writer (1878–1967)

John Edward Masefield was an English poet and writer. He was Poet Laureate from 1930 until his death in 1967, during which time he lived at Burcot, Oxfordshire, near Abingdon-on-Thames. Among his best known works are the children's novels The Midnight Folk and The Box of…