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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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John Masefield
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(1878–1967) Poet whose apprenticeship was in the merchant navy and whose first book of poems in 1902 included *Sea Fever; it was followed by *Cargoes in a volume of 1910. His long narrative poem The Everlasting Mercy (1911) shocked many because of its use of everyday and sometimes profane language. He was made *poet laureate in 1930.
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