Poet and playwright. Born Leytonstone.
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Coventry Patmore
Poet and critic. Born at Woodford, Essex. Died Lymington. Web sites giving his poetry are numerous.
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Christopher Marlowe
Playwright and poet, for definite. Spy? Atheist? Homosexual? Shakespeare? Baptized on 26th February at St George's Church, Canterbury. Educated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. His plays inclu...
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Richard Church
Poet and writer. Born Richard Thomas Church in Battersea. He worked as a civil servant, before taking up writing full-time in 1933. His poems include 'Solstices', 'A House in Winter' and 'The Man W...
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Iolo Morganwg
Born Edward Williams in Glamorgan. Founder member of the Unitarian movement in Wales, an anti-slavery campaigner, and political radical who called himself "The Bard of Liberty". As a stonemason he ...
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Siegfried Sassoon
Poet and writer. Born Siegfried Loraine (also spelt Lorraine or Louvain depending on source) Sassoon at Weirleigh, Brenchley, near Paddock Wood, Kent. Grandson of Thomas Thornycroft and cousin of S...
Person, Armed Forces, Literature, Poetry, Seriously Famous, France
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