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In which English village did John Castillo live in Poets Corner next to the paper mill?
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#17684. Asked by arb. (Mar 27 02 5:44 PM)
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Assuming this is the John Castillo in question - In the country round Whitby and Pickering, and throughout the Hambledon Hills, John Castillo's name is very familiar. Born near Dublin, in 1792, of Roman Catholic parents, he was brought up at Lealholm Bridge, in the Cleveland country, and learnt the trade of a journeyman stone-mason. His well-known poem,'Awd Isaac,' seems to have been first printed at Northallerton in 1831. Twelve years later it occupies the first place in a volume of poems published by the author at Whitby under the title, Awd Isaac, The Steeplechase, and Other Poems. Like most of his other poems, 'Awd Isaac' is strongly didactic and {religious;} its homely piety and directness of speach have won for it a warm welcome among the North Yorkshire peasantry, and many a farmer and farm-labourer still living knows much of the poem by heart. Castillo died at Pickering in 1845, and five years later a complete edition of his poems was published at Kirkby Moorside.
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