John Hewitt, Irish poet, playwright, and critic (died 1987)

John Hewitt (poet)

Northern Irish poet (1907–1987)

John Harold Hewitt was perhaps the most significant Belfast poet to emerge before the 1960s generation of Northern Irish poets that included Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon and Michael Longley. He was appointed the first writer-in-residence at Queen's University Belfast in 1976. His…