C. H. Sisson Quotes
Here lies a civil servant. He was civil To everyone, and servant to the devil.
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| Birth: | 22nd April, 1914 |
| Death: | 5th September, 2003 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Poet, Translator, Writer |
C. H. Sisson was born in Bristol, England. He was a British writer, best known as a poet and translator. Sisson was a student at the University of Bristol where he read English and Philosophy. As a poet he first came to light through the London Arts Review, X, founded by the painter Patrick Swift and the poet David Wright. His novel Christopher Homm experiments with form and is told backwards. He worked as a civil servant and wrote a standard text The Spirit of British Administration arising from his work and a comparison with other European methods.
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