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Poet Name: Madge, Charles Henry
Given Name: Charles Henry
Last Name: Madge
Date of Birth: 10 October 1912
Biography: Charles Madge, born in 1912, was a South African/English poet, journalist and sociologist, now most remembered as a founder of Mass-Observation, the social research organization. He was classified as a surrealist poet.

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Education: Magdalen College
News Items: Shaping Forces; A fine and private place?; Poets from Abroad; Power of the Pen in Exile: The Times Profile, Breyten Breytenbach; A New Look in Writing; Notes towards an understanding of Yeats; Voices from South Africa; Books and Writers
Works: South African Poetry. A New Anthology, with a Foreword by Roy Campbell; The Father Found; Of Love, Time, and Places; The Disappearing Castle; A Book of African Verse, selected and introduced by Guy Butler; Poets in South Africa: An Anthology
Close Relationships: Whistler, Laurence; Lessing, Doris; Schreiner, Olive; Dyment, Clifford; Smit, Hettie; Brink, André Philippus; Connolly, Cyril Vernon 'Cyril Connolly'; MacNeice, Louis; Bosman, Herman Charles; Louw, W. E. G.; van den Heever, C. M.; Yeats, William Butler 'W. B.'; Jacobson, Dan; Millin, Sarah Gertrude; Abrahams, Peter; Wiggin, Maurice; Ricks, Christopher; Biko, Bantu Stephen 'Steve'; Woods, Donald James; Thomas, Dylan; Gordimer, Nadine; Smith, Pauline Janet; Auden, Wystan Hugh 'W. H.'; Schuitema, Barend; Morton, Do; Spender, Stephen; FitzPatrick, James Percy; van Bruggen, Jochem; Breytenbach, Breyten; Eybers, Elisabeth Françoise; Delius, Anthony 'Ronald St. Martin'; van den Heever, Toon; Blum, Peter; Opperman, Diederik Johannes 'D. J.'; Marais, Eugène Nielen; Plomer, William; Watermeyer, Gottfried Andreas 'G. A.'; Butler, Guy; Pringle, Thomas; Pretorius, S. J. 'Sarel Jacob'; Currey, Ralph Nixon 'R. N.'; Leipoldt, C. Louis 'Christian Frederik Louis'; Paton, Alan; Vanwyk Louw, Nicholaas Petrus; Wright, David; Campbell, Roy; Rousseau, Ina; Cope, Robert Knox 'Jack'; Clouts, Sydney; Rive, Richard; Philander, P. J. 'Peter John'; Krige, Uys; van Heerden, Ernst; Cullinan, Patrick; MacNab, Roy; Celliers, Jan; Prince, Frank Templeton 'F. T.'; Slater, Francis Carey 'F. C.'
Place of Birth: South Africa, Johannesburg
Spatial Coverage: Johannesburg
Region: Southern Africa
Type: Poets in the News