The is worth a read - it's short and not kind; describing him as a "minor' poet, and using terms such as "sponging", "execrable", "laziness and lack of scruples" and repeating the rumour of an incestuous relationship with his half-sister.
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Eric Mackay
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ATC 296 (Stoke Newington) WW2
At the War Memorials Register we learn that, since we visited, laminated sign...
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Edwin Arnold
Journalist and poet, Born at Gravesend. In 1852 he obtained the Newdigate prize for his first poem, 'The Feast of Belshazzar' ('High on a throne of ivory and gold, From crown to footstool clad in p...
1 memorial
Sir Kingsley Amis
Novelist and poet. Born Kingsley William Amis in Norbury. His many novels include 'Lucky Jim', 'Take a Girl Like You' and 'The Old Devils'. He also wrote six volumes of poetry, and works of non-fic...
1 memorial
Edgar A Bowring
There is much of interest in this man's life. Born the son of a career diplomat who served for a time as Governor of Hong Kong, his mother was poisoned with arsenic whilst in Hong Kong and died in ...
1 memorial
Thomas Middleton
Playwright.  Born London, probably in in a house on the corner of Ironmonger Lane and Cateaton Street (now Gresham Street). Baptized on 18 April 1580 in St Lawrence Jewry. He collaborated with a nu...
1 memorial
William Wordsworth
Romantic poet.  Born Cumberland, with the perfect name for a poet (see Isambard Brunel for more examples of nominative determinism).  Died Grasmere, the Lake District. Passing through London in 18...
2 memorials
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