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His Brief Introduction John Edward Masefield(1 June 1878 – 12 May 1967) was an English poet and writer, and?Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom?from 1930 until his death in 1967. He is remembered as the author of the classic childrens novels?The Midnight Folk?and?The Box of Delights, and poems, including The Everlasting Mercy and Sea-Fever. His Early Life Masefield was born in?Ledbury in?Herefordshire. His mother died giving birth to his sister when Masefield was only six, and he went to live with his aunt. His father died soon after following a mental breakdown.?After an unhappy education at the?Kings School?in?Warwick?(now known as Warwick School), where he was a boarder between 1888 and 1891, he left to board the?HMS?Conway, both to train for a life at sea, and to break his addiction to reading, of which his aunt thought little. He spent several years aboard this ship and found that he could spend much of his time reading and writing. It was aboard the Conway that Masefields love for story-telling grew. While on the ship, he listened to the stories told about sea lore. He continued to read, and felt that he was to become a writer and story teller himself. He eventually returned home to England in 1897?as a passenger aboard a steam ship. When Masefield was 23, he met his future wife, Constance Crommelin, who was 35. Educated in classics and?English Literature, and a mathematics teacher, Constance was a good match for Masefield despite the difference in age. The couple had two children (Judith, born in 1904, and Lewis, in 1910). By the time he was 24, Masefields poems were being published in periodicals and his first collected works,?Salt-Water Ballads?(1902) was published, the poem Sea-Fever appearing in this book. Masefield then wrote the novels,?Captain Margaret?(1908) and?Multitude and Solitude?(1909). In 1911, after a long drought of poem writing, he composed The Everlasting Mercy, the first of his?narrative poems, and within the next year, Masefield had pro