Hughes commemorated in Poet's Corner

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Late Poet Laureate Ted Hughes is to be honoured in Westmister Abbey next month with the placing of a memorial stone in Poet's Corner.

Hughes' memorial stone will sit at the foot of TS Eliot's commemoration stone. TS Eliot was Hughes' publisher and was a fellow writer.

Hughes' friend and poet Seamus Heaney had led the campaign for Hughes to be remembered in Poet's Corner. It was announced last year that he would be honoured in the corner in Westminster Abbey, but the exact location was not revealed.

Heaney and actress Juliet Stevenson will give readings at the ceremony on 6 December.

Born in 1930, Ted Hughes was an English poet and children's writer, receiving critical acclaim for his first book of poems, Hawk in the Rain. He was married to the American poet Sylvia Plath until her suicide in 1963.

Hughes was Poet Laureate from 1984 to 1998, when he died of cancer.

Famous poets buried in Westminster Abbey include Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling and Alfred Tennyson.

Some of the world's most notable public figures have been buried in Britain. Long after their passing, thousands of tourists flock to visit the most Famous British graves and Britevents has listed the fallen greats and where they push the daisies.