Seamus Heaney, Sir Andrew Motion and others are calling for Ted Hughes, who died in 1998, to be commemorated in Poets’ Corner at Westminster Abbey. Poets’ Corner honors the country’s greatest poets, and Hughes would join Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, William Blake and T.S. Eliot, among others.

Heaney reportedly told the Evening Standard that Hughes “deserves to be in Poets’ Corner because he was a visionary poet with a high sense of his calling and high achievement in his art…he had a deep sense of himself as the inheritor and guardian of the land and language of William Blake and William Shakespeare.”

Hughes would be the first to be immortalized at Westminster since Sir John Betjeman in 1984. Some poets are buried there, but there is “no suggestion that Hughes’s ashes would be reinterred there,” according to Times Online. Hughes would be commemorated with a plaque.