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...
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Hugo Manning
Poet.  Born as Lazarus Perkoff at "123 Oxford Street in Mile End Road"  according to UCL Archives. His parents were Polish Jews so we believe the Mile End bit.  Spent 1938 - 43 in Argentina.  On h...
1 memorial
Francis Thompson
Poet and cricket lover, author of 'The Hound of Heaven'. Born Preston, Lancashire into the middle classes. Went through a period as a down-and-out and opium addict before being discovered as a poet...
1 memorial
Robert Browning
Poet and playwright. Born Camberwell.  His works include ‘Home Thoughts from Abroad’ and ‘The Pied Piper of Hamelin’. He fell in love with Elizabeth Barrett and married her secretly because of her ...
7 memorials
Ezra Pound
Poet. Â Born Idaho, USA. Â Had a close relationship with Hilda Doolittle whom he met at university. Â She followed him to London and with others they developed the Imagism poetry movement. Â Pound wa...
1 memorial
Maya Angelou
Author and poet. Â Born Marguerite Ann Johnson in St Louis, Missouri, USA. She died, aged 86 years, on 28 May 2014 at her home in Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina, USA. Her body was cr...
1 memorial
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