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...
Other Subjects
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Poet and Jesuit priest. Born 87 The Grove, Stratford, of Welsh ancestry. 1852 the family moved to Hampstead and GMH attended Highgate School where he flourished. At Oxford University he converted ...
4 memorials
John Dryden
Poet and playwright. Born in Aldwincle, Northamptonshire. The first Poet Laureate. Died in London. Initially buried in St Anne's Church, Soho but quickly reburied in Chaucer's grave in Westminster ...
6 memorials
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
Sir John Betjeman
Poet Laureate 1972 - 1984. Conservation campaigner. Credited with saving the Midland Grand Hotel (now St Pancras Chambers) and the station at St Pancras from demolition and helping to achieve their...
11 memorials
Robert Burns
Born Alloway, Ayrshire. Wrote in the Scots language, and also in a Scots dialect which is accessible to English speakers. Also collected traditional songs. Scots the world over celebrate his birth ...
1 memorial
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