biography
| name: |
Causley, Charles (Stanley)
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pronunciation:
[kawzlee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1917– )
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Launceston, Cornwall, SW England, UK. He left school at 15, joined the navy, and trained as a teacher after World War 2. He wrote his first poetry while in the navy, publishing his first collection, Hands to Dance, in 1951. He became known as a poet of the sea, and also as a children's poet. Later volumes include Union Street (1957), Figgie Hobbin (1970), and Early in the Morning (1988), and his Collected Poems 1951–1997 were published in 1997. |
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