Note: A long narrative poem (not a novel) The 1920 Macmillan ed., and Project Gutenberg Ebook #38052, begins with a moderately long prose Introduction by Masefield: "I have been asked to write why I wrote this poem ...". "Some of his verse narratives – notably Reynard the Fox, or The Ghost Heath Run (1919) and Minnie Maylow's Story and Other Tales and Scenes (coll 1931), a collection of Fairytales – are of fantasy interest, though little read now, perhaps because JM's poetry as a whole fell profoundly out of favour after about the end of WWI. --SFE: Encyclopedia of Fantasy, biographical entry by John Clute