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 Gavin Buchanan Ewart ( 1916-02-04 – 1995-10-25 ) was a prolific British poet known for his witty and sometimes unsettling treatments of unlikely subjects. Sourced Miss Twye was soaping her breasts in the bath When she heard behind her a meaning laugh... 
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Gavin Buchanan Ewart (February 4,1916 - October 25, 1995) was a British poet best known for contributing to Geoffrey Grigson's New Verse at the age of...
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 The Independent - London obituaries: Gavin Ewart
10/25/1995: 379 words, approx. 1 pages Gavin Ewart and I were a simultaneously precocious pair, writes David Gascoyne {further to the obituary by Anthony Thwaite, 24 October}. We were born in the same year in the middle of the First World War. We first met in 1933. Early that year... summary from source:
The Independent - London OBITUARY : Gavin Ewart
10/24/1995: 881 words, approx. 3 pages Gavin Ewart was one of the oddest poetic phenomena of our time. He came from a conventional upper-class Anglo- Scottish background (his father was a surgeon), and went to Wellington College. There, at the age of 17, he began to contribute poems to...
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 Critical Essay by Peter Porter
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[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 National Anthem. But Ewart isn't just a light poet any more than Auden is. In fact, it could be argued that he is so obviously serious he sometimes spoils poems with liberal messages. While we can be glad that he is on the side of the angels, we may feel that he is often at his best when describing the works of the other side. Pleasures of ... summary from source:
Critical Essay by David Howarth
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[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', he manages to deflate even "… the gentle hypocrite reader." He also analyses, very comically, certain sexual "types". The series 'Eight Awful Animals', describing fauna with names like "Panteebra" and "Stuffalo", is a wonderful classification of stereotypes, ... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Douglas Dunn
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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 varieties of comic verse are, like Enright's tones of voice, technical expressions of a seriously presented mischief. Given half a chance—a pension, say—Ewart could be a trouble-maker of the first water. The air of carelessness about his poems is nothing other than cheek, and, indeed, an "air of" rather than &#...
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