John Masefield. Poet Laureate 1930-1967. 'Eighty Five To Win'. John Arlott's original typescript of Masefield's poem on the Oval Test of 1882, when England's last five wickets fell for eleven runs, watched by 20,000 spectators, 'The crowd sat stunned an instant at the blow,/ Then cheered (and none had heard men cheering so),/ Cheered the great cricket that had won the game'. Arlott gave a reading of the poem, transmitted on the B.B.C. Home Service on Sunday 16th August 1961. The script, with some annotations in Arlott's hand, is bound in Arlott's typical green cloth, with a handwritten note from Masefield to Arlott pasted down to the front endpaper, 'Talking of the match in after years, the great bowler, Peate, is said to have said...... But all my poem is hearsay, gathered so long after the event'. Signed 'John Masefield. For John Arlott'. Bookplate of A.E. Winder to inside front cover. Loosely slipped in is a full page cutting from The Times of 26th August 1956 with the full text of the poem and the players listed. G/VG
John Masefield. Poet Laureate 1930-1967. 'Eighty Five To Win'. John Arlott's original typescript of Masefield's poem on the Oval Test of 1882, when England's last five wickets fell for eleven runs, watched by 20,000 spectators, 'The crowd sat stunned an instant at the blow,/ Then cheered (and none had heard men cheering so),/ Cheered the great cricket that had won the game'. Arlott gave a reading of the poem, transmitted on the B.B.C. Home Service on Sunday 16th August 1961. The script, with some annotations in Arlott's hand, is bound in Arlott's typical green cloth, with a handwritten note from Masefield to Arlott pasted down to the front endpaper, 'Talking of the match in after years, the great bowler, Peate, is said to have said...... But all my poem is hearsay, gathered so long after the event'. Signed 'John Masefield. For John Arlott'. Bookplate of A.E. Winder to inside front cover. Loosely slipped in is a full page cutting from The Times of 26th August 1956 with the full text of the poem and the players listed. G/VG
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