The History of a Camden House (two poets)
Fitzroy Road is a leafy suburb of Primrose Hill, that is home to a two-times blue plaque house, a red-brick Victorian terrace, where two famous poets once lived, 100 years apart. This image shows Sylvia’s spirit returning.
Sylvia Plath (a young American poet)
Sylvia Plath was an American poet, who moved in with her children following the separation from her husband (Ted Hughes, who would go on to become Poet Laureate in later years). It was there she wrote some of her best-loved poetry.
Despite being known more for her neurotic writings about humans, she also wrote some wonderful poems about pheasants, flowers and wild bears. All poets love nature!
There is a sad ending, while Sylvia was suffering from severe depression, during the famed bitter-cold winter of 1963. A stunning beautiful and talented women, she gave cookies to her children, sealed their bedroom doors with tape, and put her head in the oven. She was just 30 years old.
Sylvia is buried near Hebden Bridge in Yorkshire. And almost 50 years later, her son (a baby at the time) also committed suicide. Her daughter Frieda Hughes also became a writer, and is also a respected painter and sculptor.
Also resided in by W.B. Yeats
Irish poet W.B Yeats (the initials stood for William Butler) lived in the same house, almost 100 years earlier. His used his unique influence to to intelligently campaign for Irish independence, away from the violent nationalism gathering pace back home.
He married late in life (age 52), but it was all quite strange. He proposed four times to Irish nationalist Maud Gonne. And after she refused him, he proposed to her daughter?! Later on he did marry, to a young woman Georgie Hyde-Lees.
They had two children:
Michael Butler Yeats became a barrister and Fianna Fáil politician, and married a classically-trained Irish harpist. Anne Yeats became a painter and never married, focusing her life on creative expression.
