Culture of Cornwall Cornish poets. The Nobel-prizewinning novelist William Golding who was born in St Columb Minor in 1911, and returned to live near Truro from 1985 until his death in 1993. Other notable Cornish writers include Arthur Quiller-Couch, alias "Q", novelist and literary critic, Jack Clemo, deaf-blind poet, Ronald Bottrall, modernist poet, Robert Stephen Hawker, eccentric Victorian poet and priest, Geoffrey Grigson, poet and critic, Silas Hocking, a prolific novelist, and D. M. Thomas, novelist and poet. The late Poet Laureate Sir John Betjeman was famously fond of Cornwall and it featured prominently in his poetry. He is buried in the churchyard
Oxford period poetry anthologies - John Mason Neale - Henry Newbolt - John Henry Newman - John Nicol - Roden Berkeley Wriothesley Noel - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton - Alfred Noyes - Moira O'Neill - John Boyle O'Reilly - Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy - Francis Turner Palgrave - Sir Gilbert Parker - Fanny Parnell - Coventry Patmore - John Payne - John Swinnerton Phillimore - Stephen Phillips - Eden Phillpotts - William Philpot - Edgar Allan Poe - Walter Herries Pollock - Ezra Pound - Winthrop Mackworth Praed - May Probyn - Adelaide Anne Procter - Bryan Waller Procter - Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch -