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BALLADS
BY
JOHN MASEFIELD
New Edition. Revised and Enlarged with the addition of Twelve new ones.
SOME OPINIONS OF THE PRESS
“Treasure trove ... here is to be found the real gold of true, spontaneous, natural English poetry; racial not only because its spirit is sea-born, but because it is instinct in every line with the health and vigour of those old English ballads both of land and sea that still give to our mother-tongue pretty well all the original sap and sweetness that is left to it. More than any of his previous verse this book of Mr. Masefield’s reminds one of the old ballads.”—Morning Advertiser.
“There is a touch on the heart in every one of these ballads; there is no new touch, but, better far than that very rare gift, there is the true touch, unpretentious, but quite unmistakable.”—Vanity Fair.