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?
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| Birth: | 24th August, 1917 |
| Death: | 4th November, 2003 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Poet, Teacher, Writer |
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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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