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British poet JOHN HEATH-STUBBS has died at a nursing home in London. He was 88.
Heath-Stubbs, who won the Queens Gold Medal for Poetry in 1973, had been diagnosed with lung cancer earlier this year (06), and lost his sight in 1978.
He studied at Queens College, Oxford alongside fellow writers CS LEWIS and JRR TOLKIEN, and saw his work first published in 1941 as part of the EIGHT OXFORD POETS anthology. His later work included poetry, plays, literary criticism and translations, including epic poem ARTORIUS: A HEROIC POEM IN FOUR BOOKS AND EIGHT EPISODES and SATIRES AND EPIGRAMS.
Heath-Stubbs died on Tuesday (26DEC06) at Athlone House Nursing Home in west London. The cause of death is unknown. (JC/WNWA/ES)
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