Reviews for Songs of the sea & sailors' chanteys

The average rating for Songs of the sea & sailors' chanteys based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-01-18 00:00:00 Daniel Molenbeek Got very repetitive... I couldn't differentiate most poems from one another. All old-English-style, talking about waves and the sea. Snoozefest. There were a couple redeeming poems though. Afternoon: Amagansett Beach (John Hall Wheelock) from Look Not Too Deep (Laurence Binyon)

Review # 2 was written on 2017-04-09 00:00:00 David Thieroff Written during World War II, and focusing mainly on our culture's troubled relationship with nature, this is an extraordinary book that gives a wealth of insight into the origins of the economic, cultural and ecological crisis we currently find ourselves in. This is not an easy or quick read; the text is dense and makes frequent references to poetry, philosophy and historical sources as Massingham traces the gradual sell-out of Western culture, including institutionalised religion, to the gods of finance. At one and the same time terrifying, sad and yet oddly hopeful. The book is out of print and not available in electronic form, but copies can still be found through the usual second-hand channels. This is a book I will not be parting with.