THE RIVERSIDE PRESS LIMITED, EDINBURGH
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JOHN MASEFIELD
THE EVERLASTING MERCY
Fifth Impression. Crown 8vo, cloth, 3s. 6d. net
SOME OPINIONS OF THE PRESS
"Mr Masefield is to be congratulated on a remarkable achievement--a vital portrait of a man, the drama of a great spiritual conquest, and many passages of high beauty."--Spectator.
"This is probably the most important addition to English religious poetry since Francis Thompson wrote 'The Hound of Heaven.' 'The Everlasting Mercy' is the story of a conversion; not the 'interesting' conversion of some cultured and introspective Agnostic, full of wise saws and modern instances, but the sensational, primitive, catastrophic conversion of a village wastrel, violent alike in body, mind and soul--a drunkard, poacher, bully and libertine.... In it Mr Masefield has accomplished two separate things. He has written a superb poem, swift in its pace and vivid in its phrasing, and produced as well a psychological document of surpassing interest.... He has brought the flaming torch of beauty to light the dry processes of the religious psychologist."--EVELYN UNDERHILL in The Daily News.
"Here, beyond question, in 'The Everlasting Mercy,' is a great poem, as true to the essentials of its ancient art as it is astoundingly modern in its method; a poem, too, which 'every clergyman in the country ought to read as a revelation of the heathenism still left in the land.' ... Its technical force is on a level with its high, inspiring thought. It makes the reader think; it goads him to emotion; and it leaves him alive with a fresh appreciation of the wonderful capacity of human nature to receive new influences and atone for old and apparently ineradicable wrongs."--ARTHUR WAUGH in The Daily Chronicle.
JOHN MASEFIELD