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Article: JOHN MASEFIELD'S CENTRAL AMERICA.
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- October 1, 2001
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During the 1920s John Masefield, the future Poet Laureate, published two novels set in the imaginary Latin American republic of Santa Barbara, Sard Harker (1924) and ODTAA (1926). Both novels touch on the career of the supposedly legendary dictator, Don Manuel, and both have similar story lines. In Sard Harker the eponymous hero, returning from delivering a warning to two expatriate Britons whom he believes to be in danger, becomes lost and wanders for days through a haunted, hallucinatory landscape, thinly populated by what seem to be rejects from the French Foreign Legion and deserters from the army of the Mexican Pancho Villa. In ODTAA, the protagonist, carrying an ...
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