Which Poet Laureate was born at Mytholmroyd in Yorkshire?
"a larger scale, to incorporate the recently closed Todmorden Sixth Form. Mytholmroyd Community Centre hosts the annual Dock Pudding Championships, in April. In 2007 Robbie Coltrane entered the competition and was awarded second place. The Scout Rock on the south side of the valley in Mytholmroyd features heavily in Ted Hughes' autobiography, ""The Rock"". Hughes was born in the village, before moving to Mexborough, but latterly owned a property in Mytholmroyd in his adulthood. Hughes claimed that Scout Rock cast its mood over the village. The village is served by Mytholmroyd railway station, located on New Road, Northern operate a"
"John Dryden John Dryden (; – ) was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who was made England's first Poet Laureate in 1668. He is seen as dominating the literary life of Restoration England to such a point that the period came to be known in literary circles as the Age of Dryden. Walter Scott called him ""Glorious John"". Dryden was born in the village rectory of Aldwincle near Thrapston in Northamptonshire, where his maternal grandfather was rector of All Saints. He was the eldest of fourteen children born to Erasmus Dryden and wife Mary Pickering, paternal grandson"
"stream running through the Parsonage House of his childhood, in Basingstoke. The Loddon rises west of Basingstoke and is fed by springs in the town; it joins the Kennet at Reading. Thomas Warton Thomas Warton (9 January 1728 – 21 May 1790) was an English literary historian, critic, and poet. From 1785 to 1790 he was the Poet Laureate of England. He is sometimes called ""Thomas Warton the younger"" to distinguish him from his father ""Thomas Warton the elder"". His most famous poem remains ""The Pleasures of Melancholy"", a representative work of the Graveyard poets. Warton was born in Basingstoke,"
"Chapel at Pontypridd in 1905. Like all Archdruids, he was a winner of a major poetry prize at the National Eisteddfod, in his case the crown at the 1907 Eisteddfod in Swansea. During World War I, he served as a chaplain in France. In 1927, he became editor of the Welsh-language journal ""Y Tyst"". John Dyfnallt Owen Rev. John Dyfnallt Owen (7 April 1873 – 28 December 1956), was a Welsh poet, and served as Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales from 1954 until his death. He was often known simply by his bardic name, ""Dyfnallt"". Owen was born"
"are (acted/published) and unless otherwise noted are taken from Scott's edition. John Dryden John Dryden (; – ) was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who was made England's first Poet Laureate in 1668. He is seen as dominating the literary life of Restoration England to such a point that the period came to be known in literary circles as the Age of Dryden. Walter Scott called him ""Glorious John"". Dryden was born in the village rectory of Aldwincle near Thrapston in Northamptonshire, where his maternal grandfather was rector of All Saints. He was the eldest of fourteen"
"Thomas Warton Thomas Warton (9 January 1728 – 21 May 1790) was an English literary historian, critic, and poet. From 1785 to 1790 he was the Poet Laureate of England. He is sometimes called ""Thomas Warton the younger"" to distinguish him from his father ""Thomas Warton the elder"". His most famous poem remains ""The Pleasures of Melancholy"", a representative work of the Graveyard poets. Warton was born in Basingstoke, Hampshire, the son of poet Thomas Warton, the Elder, and younger brother of Joseph Warton. As a youngster, Warton demonstrated a strong predilection toward writing poetry, a skill he would continue"
"Palmer, Albert Moore, Frederic, Lord Leighton, Henri Fantin-Latour, Lucien Pissarro, William Nicholson, Walter Crane, Charles Conder, Jessie Marion King, William Morris's daughter May Morris, William Rothenstein, Charles Ricketts and of course Paul Nash. Gordon Bottomley Gordon Bottomley (20 February 1874 –25 August 1948) was an English poet, known particularly for his verse dramas. He was partly disabled by tubercular illness. His main influences were the later Victorian Romantic poets, the Pre-Raphaelites and William Morris. Bottomley was born in Keighley, West Riding of Yorkshire on 20 February 1874, the only child of Maria and Alfred Bottomley. He was educated firstly at"
"Helyg"" (""Moor Willows""), which extols the agrarian life and Welsh culture of his region. There is a memorial to him and the other three poets of Mynydd Bach near Llyn Eiddwen. B. T. Hopkins Benjamin Thomas Hopkins (3 December 1897 – 21 January 1981) was a Welsh poet from Ceredigion (Cardiganshire) who wrote under the pen name ""B. T. Hopkins"". He was a noteworthy judge of the National Eisteddfod. He was born near Lledrod and raised by his aunt in Blaenafon, since his mother died shortly after his birth. He married in 1937 and farmed Brynwichell in Blaenpennal parish near"
"the Hawthornden Prize for ""The Cruel Solstice"" and ""The Iron Laurel"". He has been described as one of the outstanding poets of the Second World War. Sidney Keyes Sidney Arthur Kilworth Keyes (27 May 1922 – 29 April 1943, Tunisia) was an English poet of World War II. Keyes was born May 27, 1922. His mother died shortly afterwards and he was raised by his paternal grandparents. Keyes started writing poetry when still very young, with Wordsworth, Rilke and Jung among his main influences. He attended Dartford Grammar School and then boarded at Tonbridge School (Hillside, 1935-1940) during his secondary"
"Pinner, Middlesex on 11 August 1813. He is buried in Pinner's parish church of St John the Baptist. Pye married twice. He had two daughters by his first wife. He married secondly in 1801 Martha Corbett, by whom he had a son Henry John Pye, who in 1833 inherited the Clifton Hall, Staffordshire estate of a distant cousin and who was High Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1840. Henry James Pye Henry James Pye (; 10 February 1744 – 11 August 1813) was an English poet, and Poet Laureate from 1790 until his death. He was the first poet laureate to"
"Ian Parks Ian Parks (born 1959) is a British poet, known for his love poetry. Described by Chiron Review as 'the finest love poet of his generation', Parks was born in Mexborough, South Yorkshire. The son of a miner, Parks grew up during the declining years of the industry - something which was to have a profound effect on his later work. His first collection of poems, ""Gargoyles in Winter"" was published in 1986, the same year in which he received a Yorkshire Arts Award. From 1986 to 1988 he was writer-in-residence at North Riding College, Scarborough. He was made"
"Rockefeller Foundation Atlantic Award in 1950. 'The Encounter' Clifford Dyment Clifford Henry Dyment FRSL (20 January 1914 – 5 June 1971) was a British poet, literary critic, editor and journalist, best known for his poems on countryside topics. Born to Welsh parents, his mother was widowed when Dyment was four years old. Born in Alfreton, Derbyshire, he spent his early childhood in Caerleon-on-Usk but was educated at Loughborough Grammar School in Leicestershire. His poem ""The Son"" was occasioned by his discovery of a letter written by his conscripted father prior to his death in World War I. Another Dyment poem"
"living in south-west France. He returned to Scotland in 1596, and died back in Ayrshire on 10 April 1601. He is now remembered for one poem in Scots, the ""Sonnet of Venus and Cupid"", which was attributed to him in 1900, and which Ezra Pound called ""the most beautiful sonnet in the language"" Mark Alexander Boyd Mark Alexander Boyd (13 January 1562 – 10 April 1601) was a Scottish poet and soldier of fortune. He was born in Ayrshire, Scotland. His father was from Penkill, Carrick, in Ayrshire. He was educated under the care of his uncle, the Archbishop of"
"In 2011 the John Nicholson Prize was won by the Derbyshire Poet Martin Ward with the poem 'Saltaire at 13 O'clock. Martin Ward is sometimes known as 'The Runner Poet', and his published works include 'The Beresford Monuments' and 'Seven Women Dancing' from the anthology 'A Place of Wonder' published by Templar Poetry. A plinth commemorating the poet was installed at the Prince of Wales Park, Bingley, in 1870. The plinth was funded by public donation. John Nicholson (poet) John Nicholson (29 November 1790 – 13 April 1843) was popularly known as the Airedale Poet and also as the Bingley"
"Laureate of Saint Lucia include: Derek Walcott. Poets laureate of Sierra Leone include the Italian authors Roberto Malini and Dario Picciau. Poets laureate of Somalia include: Hadraawi. Mehmet Akif Ersoy was the Poet-Laureate, born in 1873 and died on December 27, 1936, famous Turkish poet. He composed the poem to be the National Anthem of the Turkish Republic that written in 1921.""Original name of the poem is İstiklal Marşı"" The more general use of the term ""poet laureate"" is restricted in England to the official office of Poet Laureate, attached to the royal household. However, no authoritative historical record exists"
"Kenneth Allott Kenneth Allott (29 August 1912 – 1973) was an Anglo-Irish poet and academic, and authority on Matthew Arnold. Born in Glamorgan, where his father, a doctor, was serving as a locum, Allott later experienced the break-up of his parents' marriage, followed by the death of his mother. After she died he and his brother Guy were adopted by their Irish aunts on Tyneside, and from the age of 14 attended St Cuthbert's Roman Catholic Grammar School in Newcastle on Tyne. 'Speedy', as he was popularly named, was given to him because he spoke so quickly. Despite the fact"
"to Victorian Fiction"" (1990) and ""Mid-Victorian Poetry, 1860-1879"", as well as appearing in the database of the Labouring-Class Writers Project. John Close John Close, also known as Poet Close, was born on 11 August 1816 at Gunnerside and died at Kirkby Stephen on 15 February 1891. He was an enterprising and prolific writer of working class origin who catered to the English Lake District tourist trade. Of only local significance before 1860, what brought him national notoriety was his being granted and then stripped of a Civil List pension that year. 'Poet Close' was born in the Yorkshire Swaledale as"
"Elizabeth Rebecca Ward Elizabeth Rebecca Ward (2 December 1880 – 16 April 1978) was a prolific English writer of popular verse, religious works, and works for children. She wrote under the pen-name Fay Inchfawn. Her works were serialised in women's magazines, and she was sometimes known as ""The Poet Laureate of the Home"". Elizabeth Rebecca Ward was born Elizabeth Rebecca Daniels at Portishead, Somerset, on 2 December 1880. She married Atkinson Ward (1882 – October 1965) in 1911 in the Long Ashton district of Somerset. They moved to Bradford-on-Avon in Wiltshire and in 1913 had a daughter, Mary Arundell Ward"
"were returned, with new bearings, in October 2012. The American poet Sylvia Plath, who was married to Poet Laureate Ted Hughes from nearby Mytholmroyd, is buried in the graveyard extension, to the south-west of St Thomas a' Beckett's churchyard. Plath's headstone has been several times vandalised by removing Hughes's surname from the memorial, because some of her fans believe he was responsible for her death. Another poet buried here is the American expatriate Asa Benveniste, a co-founder in London of the publisher Trigram Press. In the 1980s Benveniste and his partner Agnetha Falk ran a secondhand bookshop in Hebden Bridge."
"Award for Young Artists, given to those attending secondary schools in the county of Kent. John Downton John Downton (27 March 1906 – 1991) was an English artist, philosopher, musician, and poet. Born in Erith, Kent, on 27 March 1906 to Albert Victor Downton (1873 - 1925; an engineer) and Flora Edith (1875 - 1962; née Mitchell) both of Wiltshire, Downton drew well from an early age. He was educated at Erith Convent, followed by Erith Grammar School. At the age of fifteen he won the youth silver medal of the Royal Drawing Society. He was educated at Queens' College,"
"at Some of his poems can be found at https://allpoetry.com/Roy-Fuller An account of his time in World War II and his wartime poetry is at http://www.warpoets.org/poets/roy-fuller-1912-1991/ A review of his Selected Poems, with an outline of his life and an appraisal of his poetry is at https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/mar/02/selected-poems-roy-fuller-review Roy Fuller Roy Broadbent Fuller (11 February 1912 – 27 September 1991) was an English writer, known mostly as a poet. He was born in Failsworth, Lancashire, and brought up in Blackpool, Lancashire. He was educated at Blackpool High School. He combined a successful legal career with writing. He worked as a lawyer"
"of 44 years, and their daughter. John Hartley Williams John Hartley Williams (7 February 1942 – 3 May 2014) was a British poet who was born in Cheshire and grew up in London. He studied at the University of Nottingham and later at the University of London. His poetry book ""Blues"" was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. He was a judge of the 2007 Poetry on the Lake poetry competition, a judge of the Keats-Shelley Prize for Poetry, and a tutor at the Arvon Foundation. He died from cancer at his home in Berlin in May 2014. He"
"Lascelles Abercrombie Lascelles Abercrombie, (9 January 1881 – 27 October 1938) was a British poet and literary critic, one of the ""Dymock poets"". He served as an English language professor. Abercrombie was born in Ashton upon Mersey, Sale, Cheshire and educated at Malvern College, and at Owens College. Before the First World War, he lived for a time at Dymock in Gloucestershire, part of a community that included Rupert Brooke, Robert Frost and Edward Thomas. These were known as the Georgian Poets, and Abercrombie sometimes called the Georgian Laureate. During these early years, he worked as a journalist, and he"
"""The Waste Land,"") and James Joyce. Below are a partial list of honours and awards received by T.S. Eliot or bestowed or created in his honour. These honours are displayed in order of precedence based on Eliot's nationality and rules of protocol, not awarding date. Source: T. S. Eliot Thomas Stearns Eliot, (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965), was an essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and ""one of the twentieth century's major poets"". Born in St. Louis, Missouri, in the United States, to a prominent Boston Brahmin family, he moved to England in 1914 at the age"
"a decade in Lincolnshire working for the British rail system. And that distinctive émigré experience—one shared by many Irish since the days of Carlyle—lies at the heart of O’Donoghue’s finely crafted sequence “Roads.” Our readers will find in O’Donoghue’s lines not simply craft, but an intelligence that peers gracefully around the edges of “Paddy-works” themes and labour clichés. "" The Munster Literature Centre established a prize in his memory, the Gregory O'Donoghue International Poetry Prize, which has been awarded annually since 2010. Gregory O'Donoghue Gregory O'Donoghue (1951–2005) was an Irish poet. Gregory O’Donoghue was born in Cork in 1951, son"
"Valentine Ackland Valentine Ackland (born Mary Kathleen Macrory Ackland) (1906 – 1969) was an English poet, an important figure in the emergence of modernism in twentieth-century British poetry. Ackland was born Mary Kathleen Macrory Ackland at 54 Brook Street, London to Robert Craig Ackland and his wife Ruth Kathleen (née Macrory), and nicknamed ""Molly"" by her family. She was the youngest child in the family. With no sons born to the family, Valentine's father, a West End London dentist, worked at making a symbolic son of Molly, teaching her to shoot rifles and to box. This attention to Molly made"
"child. He died in Chester in 1835, having survived his wife by a year. He is buried at St. John's churchyard in Chester. Richard Llwyd Richard Llwyd, also known as The Bard of Snowdon (1752 – 29 December 1835), was a Welsh author, poet and expert on Welsh heraldry and genealogy. His most notable work is the poem ""Beaumaris Bay"", which was published in 1800. Llwyd was born at the King's Head, Beaumaris in 1800 to John and Alice Llwyd. His father was a coast trader who died at Warrington from smallpox while Llwyd was still young. He spent nine"
"brief spell behind the lines. John Masefield John Edward Masefield (; 1 June 1878 – 12 May 1967) was an English poet and writer and the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1930 until 1967. Among his best known works are the children's novels ""The Midnight Folk"" and ""The Box of Delights"", and the poems ""The Everlasting Mercy"" and ""Sea-Fever"". Masefield was born in Ledbury in Herefordshire, to Caroline and George Masefield, a solicitor. His mother died giving birth to his sister when Masefield was only six, and he went to live with his aunt. His father died soon"
"with Bothwell. Aytoun is buried in the Ambulatory Chapels of in Westminster Abbey. Attribution: Robert Aytoun Sir Robert Aytoun or Ayton (1570–1638) was a Scottish poet. Ayton was the son of Ayton of Kinaldie House in Fife. He and his elder brother entered St Leonard's College in St Andrews in 1584. After graduating MA from St Andrews in 1588, he studied civil law at Paris, became ambassador to the Emperor, and held other court offices. He appears to have been well known to his literary contemporaries in Scotland and England. He became court poet to the queen of King James"
"John Byrom John Byrom or John Byrom of Kersal or John Byrom of Manchester FRS (29 February 1692 – 26 September 1763) was an English poet, the inventor of a revolutionary system of shorthand and later a significant landowner. He is most remembered as the writer of the lyrics of Anglican hymn ""Christians awake! Salute the happy morn"", which was supposedly a Christmas gift for his daughter. Byrom was descended from an old genteel Lancashire family. Ralph Byrom came to Manchester from Lowton in 1485 and became a prosperous wool merchant. His son Adam acquired property in Salford, Darcy Lever,"
"John Locke (poet) John Locke (1847–1889) was an Irish writer and Fenian activist, exiled to the United States, and most famous for writing ""Dawn on the Irish Coast"", also known as ""The Exiles Return, or Morning on the Irish coast"". Locke was born in 1847 in Minauns, Callan, County Kilkenny. When in school he used to write verses of poetry on slips of paper and went on to have his first of many poems published in 1863 at the age of 16 years. He is best remembered in Callan for his poem ""The Calm Avonree"", where a plaque on the"
"John Locke (poet) John Locke (1847–1889) was an Irish writer and Fenian activist, exiled to the United States, and most famous for writing ""Dawn on the Irish Coast"", also known as ""The Exiles Return, or Morning on the Irish coast"". Locke was born in 1847 in Minauns, Callan, County Kilkenny. When in school he used to write verses of poetry on slips of paper and went on to have his first of many poems published in 1863 at the age of 16 years. He is best remembered in Callan for his poem ""The Calm Avonree"", where a plaque on the"
"John Dyfnallt Owen Rev. John Dyfnallt Owen (7 April 1873 – 28 December 1956), was a Welsh poet, and served as Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales from 1954 until his death. He was often known simply by his bardic name, ""Dyfnallt"". Owen was born in Llangiwg, Glamorgan, and was brought up by his grandparents because of the death of his mother when he was an infant. He worked for a short period as a coal miner, then obtained an education at Parcyfelfed Academy and Bala Bangor College. Having been ordained as a Congregational minister, he took over Sardis"