![]() ![]() He returned to them again and again in his poems and stories. In 1897 he returned to England determined to succeed as a writer. He later wrote about that period of his life in an autobiographical work, 'In the Mill', published in 1941. At one time, in 1895, he worked for a few months as a sort of third assistant bar-keeper and dish-washer in Luke O'Connor's saloon, the Columbia Hotel, in New York City. He left the sea and spent several years living in the United States, working chiefly in a carpet factory. In Chile he became ill and had to return to England by steamer. ![]() After two and a half years on the school ship he was apprenticed aboard a sailing ship that was bound for Chile by way of Cape Horn. At 13 he boarded the training ship Conway moored in the river Mersey. ![]() Young Masefield wanted to be a merchant marine officer. After his father's death he was looked after by an uncle. ![]() Masefield was born in Ledbury, Herefordshire, England. He is 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. John Masefield (June 1, 1878-May 12, 1967) was an English poet, writer and the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1930 until 1967. ![]()
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