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====Poetry==== [[File:ForTheFallenPlaqueCornwall.jpg|thumb|"FOR THE FALLEN" plaque with [[the Rumps]] promontory beyond]] The late [[Poet Laureate]] [[John Betjeman|Sir John Betjeman]] was famously fond of Cornwall and it featured prominently in his poetry. He is buried in the churchyard at [[St Enodoc's Church, Trebetherick]].<ref>{{cite web|title=St Enodoc Church |publisher=RockInfo.co.uk |url=http://www.rockinfo.co.uk/daymer/stenochc.html |access-date=11 May 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070613142651/http://www.rockinfo.co.uk/daymer/stenochc.html |archive-date=13 June 2007 }}</ref> [[Charles Causley]], the poet, was born in Launceston and is perhaps the best known of Cornish poets. [[Jack Clemo]] and the scholar [[A. L. Rowse]] were also notable Cornishmen known for their poetry; The Rev. [[Robert Stephen Hawker|R. S. Hawker]] of Morwenstow wrote some poetry which was very popular in the Victorian period.<ref>Woolf, Cecil (1965)."Hawker of Morwenstow, 1803β1875." ''[[The Book Collector]]''; 14, no. 1 (spring): 62β71; 14, no. 2 (summer): 202β211.</ref> The Scottish poet [[W. S. Graham]] lived in West Cornwall from 1944 until his death in 1986.<ref>{{cite web | title =William Sydney Graham | publisher =CPRW.com | url =http://www.cprw.com/Drexel/graham.htm | access-date =11 May 2007 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20070927215803/http://www.cprw.com/Drexel/graham.htm | archive-date =27 September 2007 | url-status =dead }}</ref> The poet [[Laurence Binyon]] wrote "For the Fallen" (first published in 1914) while sitting on the cliffs between [[Pentire Head|Pentire Point]] and The Rumps and a stone plaque was erected in 2001 to commemorate the fact. The plaque bears the inscription "FOR THE FALLEN / Composed on these cliffs, 1914". The plaque also bears below this the fourth stanza (sometimes referred to as [[Ode of Remembrance|"The Ode"]]) of the poem: :They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old :Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn<!-- "Condemn" is in fact the correct word. See the talk page for more. --> :At the going down of the sun and in the morning :We will remember them
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