One beat poet composes a poem, `` Lines On A Tijuana John '', which contains a few happy hints for survival.

Incurably optimistic, dogmatic, and utterly fearless, in his youth a devout Baptist, in spite of his friendship for the Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier ( 1807-1892 ) he eventually attacked the orthodox churches for what he deemed their cowardly compromising on the slavery issue and in his invariably ardent manner was emphatically unorthodox and denied the plenary inspiration of the Bible.

* 1889 – John Middleton Murry, English poet ( d. 1957 )

* 1631 – John Dryden, English poet and playwright ( d. 1700 )

* 1653 – John Oldham, English poet ( d. 1683 )

They are said to go back at least to the Greek poet Lycophron, in the third century BCE ; but this relies on an account of Lycophron given by John Tzetzes in the 12th century.

" Amazing Grace " is a Christian hymn with words written by the English poet and clergyman John Newton ( 1725 – 1807 ), published in 1779.

* 1906 – John Betjeman, English poet ( d. 1984 )

John Dube, its first president, and poet and author Sol Plaatje are among its founding members.

* 1648 – John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, English statesman and poet ( d. 1721 )

This view is presented in English poet John Keats ' poem To Autumn, where he describes the season as a time of bounteous fecundity, a time of ' mellow fruitfulness '.

Charles was the resident poet on Channel 4's Black on Black ( 1985 ), and its entertainment-based successor, Club Mix ( 1986 ), and appeared, weekly, as a John Cooper Clarke-style ' punk poet ' on the BBC2 pop music programme Oxford Road Show under the name of " Susan Williams ".

The historical novelist and poet Maurice Hewlett published a series of articles in the literary journal John O ' London's Weekly, in which he concluded: " And knowing children, and knowing that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has legs, I decide that the Miss Carpenters have pulled one of them.

Near the end of the 17th century, John Phillips, a nephew of poet John Milton, published what is considered by Putnam the worst English translated version.

Orville Wright, poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, and entrepreneur John H. Patterson were born in Dayton.

* 1732 – John Gay, English poet and dramatist ( b. 1685 )

* 1608 – John Milton, English poet ( d. 1674 )

* 2008: The Edge of Love starring Matthew Rhys as the poet, directed by John Maybury, written by Sharman Macdonald, and drawing on David N. Thomas ' book Dylan Thomas: A Farm, Two Mansions and a Bungalow.

In due course, opposition to the divine right of kings came from a number of sources, including poet John Milton in his pamphlet The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates.

Thompson was born in Oxford to Methodist missionary parents: His father, Edward John Thompson ( 1886-1946 ) was a poet and admirer of the Nobel-prize winning poet Tagore.

* 1692 – John Byrom, English poet ( d. 1763 )

* 1929 – John Montague, Irish poet

* May 19 – John Betjeman, English poet ( b. 1906 )

* August 28 – John Betjeman, English poet ( d. 1984 )

He was offered, but declined, the position of poet laureate in 1984, following the death of John Betjeman.

These include T. S. Eliot, who taught the poet laureate John Betjeman there, Gerard Manley Hopkins the poet, the composers John Taverner and John Rutter, John Venn the inventor of Venn diagrams, actor Geoffrey Palmer, Anthony Crosland MP and Labour reformer, and the cabinet minister Charles Clarke.

* John Betjeman, poet laureate, lived at 329 Holloway Road.

The church of St John the Divine, Kennington, which was to be described by the poet John Betjeman as " the most magnificent church in South London ", was designed by George Edmund Street ( architect of the Royal Courts of Justice on Strand, London ), and was built between 1871 and 1874.

* The town is referred to by once poet laureate John Betjeman in the following lines:

Betjeman was a quietly ironic poet of Middle England with a fine command of a wide range of verse techniques.

This period saw the beginning of a closures protest movement led by the Railway Development Association, whose most famous member was the poet John Betjeman.

Humphries was good friends with the English poet John Betjeman until Betjeman ’ s death in 1984.

He collaborated with many others, including the poet John Betjeman ( on the Shell Guides ), as well as with the potter Geoffrey Eastop and the artist Ben Nicholson.

Penelope Betjeman – wife of the poet laureate John Betjeman – showed him the border country of Wales.

The district inspired the former poet laureate Sir John Betjeman to write a poem entitled ' An Edwardian Sunday, Broomhill, Sheffield ' which draws on the large stone houses, steel industry and hilly landscapes of the city.

Polzeath was a favourite haunt of the late poet laureate, Sir John Betjeman and is celebrated in some of his verse.

There was a campaign to have him appointed Poet Laureate on the death of John Betjeman, but to the people of his home town, he became " the greatest poet laureate we never had ".

Writer and poet, John Betjeman gave this description of him " he is altogether remarkable and original.

John Betjeman, poet laureate, dedicated his first Collins Guide to the English Parish Church to the memory of St Agnes Kennington Park, describing it as being “… destroyed by the diocese of Southwark after some war damage .”

Lambourn is mentioned in the poetry of Hilaire Belloc and G. K. Chesterton, the Georgian poet John Freeman wrote " Lambourn Town " and Sir John Betjeman " Upper Lambourne ".

* English poet John Betjeman becomes British press attaché in Dublin, living in Clondalkin.

* While staying at nearby Birchington-on-Sea in the 1930s, the poet Sir John Betjeman wrote about the town in his poem Westgate-on-Sea.