If you find a copy of Penguin Poetry of the Forties, you will find our hero in a different guise, as translator of the French surrealist poets.

Not a lot of peoople know that.

I always think there is something slightly surreal about a folk tradition that doesn't really stretch back as far as our parents(perhaps I should say my parents at least)- a bit like the railway train shooting out of the chimney grate in somebody or others picture.

Best of luck with your project.