Charles Causley (1917–2003)
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A propos de l'auteur
Crédit image: Photo of Charles Causley from old newspaper clipping
Séries
Œuvres de Charles Causley
Johnny Alleluia 5 exemplaires
Farewell, Aggie Weston 3 exemplaires
The Gift of a Lamb: Shepherd's Tale of the First Christmas Told as a Verse-play for Children (Puffin Books) (1978) 3 exemplaires
The Ballad of Charlotte Dymond 2 exemplaires
Modern ballads and story poems 2 exemplaires
“They are Waiting for Me Somewhere Beyond Eden Rock” 1 exemplaire
Shore Leave. Five songs for baritone and strings. Words by Charles Causley. [Vocal score.] — Words — 1 exemplaire
“At the British War Cemetery, Bayeux” 1 exemplaire
Collected Verse 1 exemplaire
How Pleasant to Know Mrs Lear 1 exemplaire
Poems in a Pamphlet 1 exemplaire
Six women: A poem (Keepsake poem) 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Camborne Festival Magazine 1976 — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Causley, Charles Stanley
- Date de naissance
- 1917-08-24
- Date de décès
- 2003-11-04
- Lieu de sépulture
- St. Thomas Churchyard, Launceston, Cornwall, England, UK
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieu de naissance
- Launceston, Cornwall, England, UK
- Lieu du décès
- Launceston, Cornwall, England, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- Cornwall, England, UK
- Études
- Launceston College
Peterborough Training College - Professions
- poet
short-story writer
playwright
editor
translator
teacher (tout afficher 7)
children's book author - Relations
- Hughes, Ted (friend)
Sassoon, Siegfried (friend)
Clemo, Jack (friend)
Rowse, A. L. (friend) - Organisations
- Royal Society of Literature
Poetry Society of Great Britain (vice president)
West County Writers Association (vice president)
BBC (literary editor)
Arts Council of Great Britain
Royal Navy (1940-46) (tout afficher 9)
University of Western Australia
Banff School of Fine Arts
University of Exeter - Prix et distinctions
- T. S. Eliot Award (1990)
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1986)
Companion of Literature
Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry (1967)
Cholmondeley Award (1971)
Heywood Hill Literary Prize (2000) (tout afficher 9)
Society of Authors scholarship
Signal Poetry Award (1986)
Newyear Honours List (1986)
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Critiques
Listes
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 65
- Aussi par
- 14
- Membres
- 1,006
- Popularité
- #25,631
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 12
- ISBN
- 117
- Langues
- 1
Charles Causely was a British poet, school teacher and writer, but most of all he was a Cornishman. His first poems entitled Farewell, Aggie Weston were published in 1951 (now long out of print and hideously expensive secondhand), but he also published some short stories: Hands to Dance in that year. I read the 1983 re-publication which includes Skylark which sets the record straight on the earlier stories, many of which were written in the first person. The short stories tell of the exploits of a Seaman who enlisted in the Royal Navy in 1940 and was trained as a coder, he was demobbed 6 years later, and spent much his service overseas in Gibraltar, Spain, Malta, Italy, Egypt, Australia and Africa. Causely's afterword Skylark makes it clear that his stories were largely fictional; his life as a coder may have been just as dangerous, but the colourful derring-do of some of the exploits were beyond the range of the shy, unpromising physical specimen that was Causely at that time.
Many of the stories take place in dockland areas in British naval bases abroad and are concerned with enemy attacks or more usually with local civilians or fellow seamen that he met during his service. The stories generally play down the danger and their matter of fact re-telling makes one feels that they could only have been written by a circumspect Englishmen. They never fail to emphasise the discomfort of living in digs abroad, or the unrelenting work schedules, or a seaman who never really got over his sea sickness. His short spells on leave place him in another world that of his rural background in a small Cornish town. Interspersed with the exploits of seaman Causely are three or four stories based in Cornwall written in an omnipresent voice and they are so realistically presented that they fit right in with the flavour of the more biographical tales. There are nineteen stories, averaging about 8 pages each, complete in themselves and with a poets eye for detail and a writers eye for colourful characters. There is no drop in quality and a few of the stories are very good indeed, some prefiguring the dangers of war service on the minds of those who survived.
The flavour of Britain in the 1940's is well captured, through the eyes of this Cornishman. The transport arrangements in wartime: for example 6 changes of train to get up to the base on the Scapa Flow, or the life in a small town during wartime, or British serviceman abroad. A fine collection of short stories which capture life in exceptional circumstances and so 4 stars,… (plus d'informations)