Ted Hughes taking his place in Poets' Corner

LONDON (AP) — British poet Ted Hughes is being honored with a memorial stone in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey, joining a line of great British writers going back to Chaucer.

The stone in the abbey floor, to be unveiled Tuesday evening, is next to one honoring T.S. Eliot, Hughes' mentor and publisher.

Hughes' stone is inscribed with his name and words from "That Morning," one of his "River" poems: "So we found the end of our journey / So we stood alive in the river of light / Among the creatures of light, creatures of light."

Some 300 people are expected to attend the ceremony, including Hughes' widow Carol and daughter Frieda. Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet Seamus …