News at Eleven: Dr. [John] Hall said: "Deciding within a few years

of people's death that they will be remembered in hundreds of years' time is of course impossible.

"And yet, it is sometimes right to make such a decision, as Deans have done over the centuries.

"By no means every poet laureate has been commemorated in Poets' Corner.

"But the overwhelming weight of advice I have received suggests that this is the right decision."

from BBC News: Poets' Corner memorial for Ted Hughes
also The Times: Ted Hughes taught other writers to be fearless

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