Born 1 Aspinall Street, Mytholmroyd, Yorkshire.
Appointed Poet Laureate in 1984.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Ted Hughes
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Silver Jubilee urn
Hughes became Poet Laureate a few years later and Larkin was of similar stand...
T. S. Eliot - W8
Eliot moved here in 1957 after he married his second wife, his secretary Vale...
Other Subjects
Edward Lear
Born Bowman's Lodge, (now Bowman's Mews), the penultimate of 21 children. Artist and writer of nonsense works, such as The Owl and the Pussycat, and limericks, e.g. There was an old person of Putn...
3 memorials
1 memorial
Louis MacNeice
Poet. Born Belfast, Northern Ireland at 2 Brookhill Avenue. Joined the BBC in 1941 as scriptwriter and producer and it was with the BBC, checking out the sound effects down a mineshaft, that he c...
1 memorial
Leigh Hunt
Poet. Born Southgate. Named 'James Henry Leigh Hunt' after the Duke of Chandos, James Henry Leigh, who was employing Hunt's father, a preacher, as tutor to his nephew at the time of Hunt's birth. F...
6 memorials
Lemn Sissay
Poet. Born near Wigan of Ethiopean parentage. Appointed MBE in 2010. Own website.
1 memorial