Collected poems, 1951-1975 / (by) Charles Causley
1975, Advance Review Copy. London ; Basingstoke : Macmillan. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #399704
ISBN: 0333179943
Physical description; 289p ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes Index. Contents; Keats at Teignmouth -- A ballad for Katharine of Aragon -- Nursery rhyme of innocence and experience -- Song of the Dying Gunner AA1 -- HMS Glory -- HMS Glory at Sydney -- HMS Eclipse approaches freetown -- Convoy -- Chief petty officer -- Elizabethan sailor's song -- Conversation in Gibraltar -- Rattler Morgan -- Demobilisation leave -- Autobiography -- At the grave of John Clare -- Return to Cornwall -- King's College chapel -- Yelverton -- Legend -- At Porth Veor -- Able seaman Hodge remembers Ceylon -- A voyage from Italy -- The seasons in North Cornwall -- Recruiting drive -- Plymouth -- The life of the poet -- Cornwall -- Homage to Jack Clemo -- Song of the weather -- Serenade to a cornish fox -- Rondel -- Faure -- On the thirteenth day of Christmas -- I saw a shot-down angel -- Ou phrontis -- Cowboy song -- A game of patience -- To a poet who has never travelled -- On seeing a poet of the First World War on the station at Abbeville -- Ballad of the faithless wife -- Shore leave -- I am the great sun -- A the statue of William the Conqueror, Falaise -- At the British War Cemetery, Bayeux -- A true ballad of Sir Henry Trecarell -- The poet's farewell to his muse -- Hymn for the birth of a royal prince -- Timothy Winters -- Hawthorn White -- Death of an aircraft -- The prisoners of love -- Mevagissey -- Betjeman, 1984 -- Armistice Day -- Colonial song -- Time like a saucy trooper -- At the ruin of Bodmin Gaol -- Ballad of the five continents -- Innocent's song -- Prinz Eugen -- Mother, get up, unbar the door -- Emblems of the passion -- Cristo de Bristol -- O Billy, do you hear that bell? -- Sonnet to the holy vine -- Master and pupil -- At Grantchester -- Healing a lunatic boy -- Miss Elliot -- For an ex-Far East prisoner of war -- My friend Maloney -- The ballad of Billy of Nosey Bent -- Three gipsies -- Bible story -- The ballad of Charlotte Dymond -- Christ at the cheesewring -- Child's song -- Three masts -- Death of a pupil -- Guy Fawkes' day -- Sailors asleep in a cinema -- Johnny Alleluia. Grave by the sea -- By St. Thomas Water -- The visit -- Reservoir Street -- School at four o'clock -- Conducting a children's choir -- Walking -- A short life of Nevil Northey Burnard -- Trusham -- Hospital -- Demolition order -- Dockacre -- A local haunting -- Death of a poet -- The question -- In coventry -- A visit to Stratford -- Portrait -- Lord Sycamore -- A certain man -- After the accident -- The sheep on Blackening Fields -- Ballad of the bread man -- Ballad of the frog princess -- Devonport -- Pelorus Jack -- Ballad of Jack Cornwell -- The sentinel's story -- Immunity -- Letter to Poseidon -- John Polruddon -- Balaam -- Young Edgcumbe -- Nelson Gardens -- The song of Samuel Sweet -- St Martha and the dragon -- Eagle one, eagle two -- Riley -- I saw a jolly hunter -- What has happened to Lulu? -- If you should go to Caistor town -- Tell me, tell me, Sarah Jane -- At candlemas -- Tom bone -- My young man's a cornishman -- Logs of wood -- Lord Lovelace -- Miller's end -- Mary, Mary Magdalene -- My mother saw a dancing bear -- Who? -- New poems: Ten types of hospital visitor -- At Kfar Kana -- Angel Hill -- Six women -- Green man in the garden -- Athenodorus -- On the border -- The forest of tangle -- Helpston -- Infant song -- A literary scandal -- Loss of an oil tanker -- Jack O' Lent -- A momentary death -- On being asked to write a school hymn -- Letter from Jericho -- Zelah -- Ward 14 -- The whangbird -- On All Soul's day -- The animal's carol -- Silent Jack -- A wedding portrait. Subjects; English poetry. English poetry texts 20th Century. New Zealand Poetry (1900-). Irish Poetry In English Anthologies. Australian Poetry (1900-).
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