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Article: John Masefield, The "Great Auk" of English Literature: A Bibliography.(Book review)
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- June 22, 2006
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John Masefield, The "Great Auk" of English Literature: A Bibliography. By Philip W. Errington. New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press, 2004. xiv, 932 pp. $125.00. ISBN 1-58456-144-0.
John Masefield himself helped name Philip W. Errington's bibliography: "It was long since decided that I am like the dodo and the great auk, no longer known as a bird at all" (viii). No specious claim, it would seem, since in his introduction Errington fears that Masefield's "vast canon" has been reduced to "a mere six stanzas," those of the poems John Betjeman praised: "Sea Fever" and "Cargoes." Yet Errington, the editor of a recent selection of the poems, thinks highly, not ...