Poet Laureate. Born London.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Andrew Motion
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John Betjeman statue
Bronze. Unveiled by Betjeman's daughter Candida Lycett-Green and Poet Laureat...
Keats statue at Guy's Hospital
Unveiled by Andrew Motion, author of a Keats biography. The quotation comes ...
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Eric Mackay
The Wikipedia entry for Mackay 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 repe...
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
David Jones
Painter and poet. Born Walter David Michael Jones.As a painter he worked chiefly in watercolour, painting portraits and animal, landscape, legendary and religious subjects. He was also a wood-engra...
1 memorial
Oliver Goldsmith
Author. Born Co. Longford, Ireland (though it could have been County Roscommon, and for his date of birth we have only his word). Arrived in London in 1760 and joined the literary group that inclu...
4 memorials
Christina Rossetti
Poet in the Pre-Raphaelite style. Sister to Dante; family details are given there. Born at 38 Charlotte Street. Engaged three times but never married; at least two of them were rejected due to 'r...
1 memorial
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