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Gavin Ewart's literary career started almost precociously when, in 1933, shortly after his seventeenth birthday, his long poem "Phallus in Wonderland" was published by Geoffrey Grigson in New Verse--t...
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Critical Essay by Peter Porter
[Ewart is] chiefly known to a wider audience as a light verse writer. Generations of students from Sydney to St Andrews have sung 'Miss Twye' to the Nation...
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Critical Essay by David Howarth
[Ewart] is a joker, taking the piss out of everyone and himself and doing it better than competently. In Pleasures of the Flesh, with a poem called 'Short Time&#...
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Critical Essay by Douglas Dunn
Gavin Ewart's verse has sometimes been thought too close to doggerel for comfort, or too facile. These opinions ignore Ewart's poetic temperament. His vari...
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Critical Essay by James Fenton
[Gavin Ewart] is a man who achieved a precocious fame in the '30s, and then went "silent." For the last decade or so he has been immensely productiv...
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Gavin (Buchanan) Ewart
Critical Essay by Peter Porter
