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From: MARTIN CORLESS-SMITH <[log in to unmask]>
To: Lawrence Upton. <[log in to unmask]>
Cc: british-poets <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 21 October 1998 20:30
Subject: Re: your mail
>it is quiet. What are we lurkers going to disagree with now no one is to
>be held accountable?
>
>I do have one small question if there is still anyone out there. About
>ayear ago there was a review of a book of poems in the times or somesuch.
>anyway I'd never heard of the fellow, but Charles C----ly seems close. i
>think he died, was old, and wrote the sort of Lear, Lewis Carrolesque
>poetry that is meant to be for children, but seems really for adults. Does
>anyone know who he is? Having just taught Stevie Smith in a broad brush
>course of Modern British Poetry, I'm in the mood for nonsense.
Charles Causley perhaps? A writer of great deapth, born in 1917 and still
living I believe.
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