Poet. Born Streatham Manor, Leigham Avenue (though his parents lived in Hampstead) into a wealthy family. Partially and progressively blind from age 18. Gay. Influenced by by classical myths. In 1989 he was made OBE. Received the Queen’s Medal for poetry in 1973 and the OBE in 1989. Died at the Athlone House nursing home in Woodfield Road, Westminster.
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John Heath-Stubbs
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John Heath-Stubbs
John Heath-Stubbs OBE, 1918 - 2006, poet, lived here. City of Westminster Fri...
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Author of the Tirukkural, the classic text of Tamil philosophy and ethics. The Tamil poet is commonly believed to have been born in the First Century BC in Madras (now called Chennai) in south ea...
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Sylvia Plath
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Grace Griffiths
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Frank Mowbray Taubman
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Leigh Hunt
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