Reynard the Fox

by Masefield, John; Errington, Philip W.

• ISBN13: 9781857549133
• ISBN10: 1857549139
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-01-01
• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.

Summary

"Reynard the Fox is one of the great poems of the English countryside and rural life. The headlong dash of John Masefield's narrative carries the reader on an exhilarating chase through the meadows and copses of the landscape the poet loved, pursued by a richly characterised community. In its deep sense of place and its humane sympathy for the hunted animal, the poem becomes a nostalgic celebration of an England that was lost in the trenches of the Great War." "Philip W. Errington, bibliographer of John Masefield (1878-1967) and editor of his Selected Poems in the Fyfield series, has edited Reynard the Fox afresh from the original manuscript. An introduction and detailed note on the text, together with additional Masefield texts related to the work, complete this definitive edition of the work."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

John Masefield was England's poet laureate from 1930 to 1967 and the author of poems, plays, novels, and children's books. His best-known and most anthologized poem, "Sea Fever," comes from Salt-Water Ballads, published in 1902. Philip W. Errington is an antiquarian book expert at Sotheby's in London and the editor of The Journal of the John Masefield Society. He is the author of John Masefield, The “Great Auk” of English Literature.