Possible Clues:

• English poet appointed Poet Laureate in 1984
• Onetime airline owner Howard
• After embrace the man's someone speaking on 10 24
• Ted —, English poet
• English poet, d.1998 — husband of Sylvia Plath
• Expression of disgust that man's picked up as Poet Laureate once
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• Harlem Renaissance leader Langston
• Langston __, jazz poet who asked, what happens to a dream deferred?
• Thomas --, author of 'Tom Brown's Schooldays'