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Reports on the unveiling of a commemorative plaque for poet Ezra Pound outside the London, England, house where he lived from 1909 to 1914.

LONDON -- The Kenyan poet Khadambi Asalache disguised stained and damp walls at his London town house with wooden filigree scenes of desert oases. He lived in an 1810s brick shoe box in the Lambeth section of south London, wedged between modernist housing blocks and a church graveyard. He bequeathed the place to the National Trust when he died in 2006, at 71. The National Trust is finishing a two-year restoration of the house and will let in trial tour groups next month. By next spring the property will be open to the public by appointment. Only 2,000 people a year will eventually be allowed inside, to minimize wear and tear on Mr. Asalache's silhouettes of palm trees, dancers, rosettes and giraffes. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Emanuel Litvinoff, an English-born Jewish poet known for his scathing verse indictment of T. S. Eliot's anti-Semitism -- and for reading it before an audience that happened to include Eliot -- died on Sept. 24 at his home in London. He was 96. His son Aaron confirmed the death. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

William Blake -- artist, poet and irritated ecstatic -- listed as his primary residence the Imagination, a combination of creative command post and psychological refuge where, as he put it, the eternal and the real meet. The place you might actually run into him, though, was London, where he was born in 1757 and spent nearly his whole life. Within the city he changed homes many times but found that each new one was much like the last. Wherever he ended up, it seemed he knew the neighbors. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Reports on the discovery of letters written by poet Shelley and his best friend Thomas Jefferson Hogg for Ralph Wedgwood in a dusty trunk in South London, England.