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Robin Skelton was born in Easington, East Yorkshire, the only son of the village schoolmaster, Cyril Skelton, and his wife, Eliza Robins Skelton. His childhood was a lonely one; his father's position...
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Born to Cyril Skelton and Eliza Roberts Skelton in Easington, East Yorkshire, England, Robin Skelton is one of many expatriate writers adopted by Canada. Skelton has had a cosmopolitan career both in ...
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Critical Essay by Doug Fetherling
Professor Skelton obviously learned to polish his verse into what … is now the "casual mastery" mentioned in one of the poems, but I am unable to...
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Critical Essay by Daniel Hoffman
[Through] changes of venue and circumstance Mr. Skelton's verse retains its characteristic diction, stance, and rhythm. His normative mode works through short l...
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Critical Essay by Neil Rennie
If (as in Robin Skelton's first poem) 'the numbering disc' is the dial of a telephone, what etiolated banality cringes in the shadows of (his book&#x...
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Critical Essay by Robin Matthews
Timelight, fittingly enough, is concerned with quest and travel—physical and psychological. A seven part series, it is the attempt of a battered and blunted and...
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Critical Essay by David Jackel
Here we have, as Skelton terms [Because of Love], "a more or less narrative sequence" (less rather than more, I think, since several of the poems were sepa...
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Robin Skelton
Critical Essay by Doug Fetherling
