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The Humber Estuary off Sunk Island, ©Jonathan Thacker (licensed for re-use under CC BY-SA 2.0 Creative Commons License Dr Stewart Mottram, Reader in English at the University of Hull, explores some of the poets, including Andrew Marvell, Philip Larkin, and Ted Hughes, who have found inspiration along the shores of the Humber Estuary. The broad … Read more

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Detail from Wenceslaus Hollar, Map of Hull (c. 1640). Hull History Centre, U DDMM/33/8.  Dr Stewart Mottram, Reader in English at the University of Hull, explores poet Andrew Marvell’s early life in Hull and Hull’s links to his later poetry.  Andrew Marvell (1621-78) was born on 31 March at Winestead-in-Holderness, 14 miles south east of … Read more