Charles Causley

Standard Name: Causley, Charles

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Anthologization Elizabeth Jennings
EJ appeared with Charles Causley , John Fuller , Vernon Scannell , and John Walsh in 1985 in a poetry collection for children from Puffin entitled Poets in Hand.
Dedications Frances Bellerby
FB dedicated to Charles Causley a book of poems which she published at Plymouth, The Stone Angel and the Stone Man.
Gittings, Robert, and Frances Bellerby. “Introduction”. Selected Poems, edited by Anne Stevenson and Anne Stevenson, Enitharmon Press, 1986.
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Friends, Associates Elizabeth Jennings
She had a remarkably catholic talent for friendship. During her student days she became a friend of Philip Larkin and Kingsley Amis . Her correspondents at this and later periods of her life included her...
Literary responses Frances Bellerby
FB 's award of a Civil List pension (1973) was a recognition of her literary achievement. Charles Causley 's obituary called her a true original possessed of a unique and distinguished voice.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Nathalie Blondel has...
Literary responses U. A. Fanthorpe
Charles Causley called this volume the most accomplished first book of poems he had met with recently, a new and original voice . . . clear, distinctive, and remarkably assured.
qtd. in
Fanthorpe, U. A. Selected Poems. Peterloo Poets, 1986.
prelims
Peter Scupham in PN...
Literary responses Rosemary Sutcliff
Charles Causley , reviewing this children's fiction for The Times, found in this book many virtues of the traditional ballad: the language spare and economical, the action moving swiftly from scene to scene, a...
Reception Frances Bellerby
During the 1950s her poems were often read on a BBC Western Region programme, where they were first introduced by Charles Causley . John Lehmann read one of FB 's poems on the Third Programme...
Textual Production Frances Bellerby
By 11 January 1959 she had sent two much-revised chapters to Charles Causley ;
Gittings, Robert, and Frances Bellerby. “Introduction”. Selected Poems, edited by Anne Stevenson and Anne Stevenson, Enitharmon Press, 1986.
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but five years later, when she added long speculations on the nature of memory,
qtd. in
Gittings, Robert, and Frances Bellerby. “Introduction”. Selected Poems, edited by Anne Stevenson and Anne Stevenson, Enitharmon Press, 1986.
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she was still having trouble...
Textual Production U. A. Fanthorpe
She co-operated with others in many further works. She appeared with Tony Lopez in Mortal Heart, 1981. In 1994 she participated in two joint projects: Painter and Poet: Three Poems (limited edition), where her...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elizabeth Jennings
She includes poems for poets, artists, and thinkers: George Herbert , Charles Causley , Philip Larkin , J. M. W. Turner , Caravaggio , Chardin , Goya , Hume , and Descartes . A sequence...
Wealth and Poverty Frances Bellerby
FB 's poverty (which had made Charles Causley and others urge her to apply for help to the Royal Literary Fund ) was alleviated by a small pension from the Civil List for services to literature.
Gittings, Robert, and Frances Bellerby. “Introduction”. Selected Poems, edited by Anne Stevenson and Anne Stevenson, Enitharmon Press, 1986.
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Texts

Jennings, Elizabeth et al. “Letters to the Editor: Future of Radio”. Times, p. 11.
Bellerby, Frances. Selected Poems. Editor Causley, Charles, Enitharmon Press, 1970.