A Sailor's Garland
A SAILORS GARLAND BY THE SAME AUTHOR SEA LIFE IN NELSON'S TIME ON THE SPANISH MAIN A SAILOR'S GARLAND TED AND EDITED JOHN MASEFIEI 1 METHUEN ft CO. 36 ESSEX STREK LONDON First Published . October Second Edition . 19$ To C 521) INTRODUCTORY is curious that m sea-going people such as the IT English should have written so little poetry, of a ibout the sea and its sailors until omipara- y recent times. It might he said that until tin- < ml of the eighteenth century our poets hardly saw the b of the tea, though they felt its terror. We have poems, such as Donne's "Storm" and "Calm/' expressing horrors and its desolation and later ; we have poems, Falconer's "Shipwreck, expressing its force and These, in their way, are excellent, hut they are not exhaustive. They rrcogniae and make significant ti.r grimmnrt aspects, and only those, of the sea, and of the life of its follower*. In this they are not singular. In loathing of the waters and of sea 1 resemble mott early English sea poetry. Nearly all the English poets, from Chau< t t< Keats, have a du! or a dread of, the sea, and a hatred of sea-life and " opinion of sailors. Chaucer," says someone, dismisses the sea with a shut! He accepts -man as a roadmate, and describes him with delicate art, but he describes him as a n who would rather break cargo than be sober, and to w),. m the ginger that is hot in the mouth is the one thing north praying fcrof all the things in the world <,.mrr.
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