Poet, wit, and satirist. Born at Winestead-in-Holderness, Yorkshire. Childless, contemporary sources hint that he was impotent due to having lost a testicle to VD. For about twenty years M.P. for Hull. Died at his lodgings on the north side of Great Russell Street, just to the west of the British Museum. There are stories that he was poisoned. Buried in the church of St. Giles-in-the-Fields.
"Had we but world enough and time. . . ."
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Andrew Marvell
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Andrew Marvell's cottage
There is a sundial in Lauderdale House garden with a poem by Marvell.
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Upper North Street School WW1 bomb - trees
Marvell wrote 'The Garden', the poem which is quoted here.
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Sir Henry Newbolt
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2 memorials
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Philip Larkin
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2 memorials
Rupert Brooke
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2 memorials
James Elroy Flecker
Poet and playwright. Born as Herman James Elroy Flecker in Lewisham. His first book of poems was published in 1907. He joined the consular service in 1908 and had postings in Constantinople and Bei...
1 memorial
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