Who is the smiling stranger With hair as white as gin, What is he doing with the children And who could have let him in?
Charles Causley Quotes
You must take off your clothes for the doctor And stand as straight as a pin, His hand of stone on your white breastbone Where the bullets all go in.
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| Birth: | 24th August, 1917 |
| Death: | 4th November, 2003 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Poet, Teacher, Writer |
About
Charles Stanley Causley was born in Launceston, Cornwall, England. He was an English poet, teacher and writer. He served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War, as a coder, an experience he later wrote about in a book of short stories, Hands to Dance and Skylark. In 1973/74 he was Visiting Fellow in Poetry at the University of Exeter, receiving an honorary doctorate from that university on 7 July 1977. He was presented with the Heywood Hill Literary Prize in 2000.
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