Person    | Male  Born 17/8/1930  Died 28/10/1998

Ted Hughes

Categories: Poetry

Born 1 Aspinall Street, Mytholmroyd, Yorkshire.
Appointed Poet Laureate in 1984.

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Ted Hughes

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Silver Jubilee urn

Hughes became Poet Laureate a few years later and Larkin was of similar stand...

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T. S. Eliot - W8

Eliot moved here in 1957 after he married his second wife, his secretary Vale...

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Theodore Watts-Dunton

Theodore Watts-Dunton

Writer and poet. Born at St Ives in the former county of Huntingdonshire as Walter Theodore Watts. He later added his mother's maiden surname. He had a particular interest in gypsy lore and publish...

Person, Poetry

1 memorial
Shropshire Lad

Shropshire Lad

A cycle of sixty-three poems by A. E. Housman. Published in 1896, most were written when Housman was unwell and depressed. The poems, nostalgic and evocative of the English "blue remembered hills",...

Media, Poetry

2 memorials
Sir Henry Taylor

Sir Henry Taylor

Born Bishop Middleham, County Durham. Poet, playwright and public servant. He went to sea as a young man, but after finding it did not agree with his health, took up a position in the Treasury. H...

Person, Poetry, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Theatre

1 memorial
Arthur Rimbaud

Arthur Rimbaud

French poet. Born Charleville, Ardennes, France. Aged 16, ran away to Paris where he was promptly arrested for fare dodging. Back home he tried writing to the much older Verlaine, his favourite...

Person, Poetry, Belgium, France

1 memorial
John Maxwell Edmonds

John Maxwell Edmonds

Poet and classical scholar.  Born Gloucestershire.  Died Cambridge.  In 1918-9 he published a few epitaphs for use on graves and memorials.  This included: When you go home, tell them of us and sa...

Person, Poetry

8 memorials