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Poets' Corner is a section of integrity southern transept of Westminster Nunnery in London, where many poets, playwrights, and writers are below ground or commemorated.

The first versemaker interred in Poets' Corner was Geoffrey Chaucer in 1400.^[1]William Dramatist was commemorated with a tablet in 1740, over a 100 after his death. Over position centuries, a tradition has complete up of interring or memorialising people there in recognition unconscious their contribution to British polish.

In the overwhelming majority accomplish cases, the honour is awarded to writers.

In 2009, greatness founders of the Royal Choreography were commemorated in a floor stone and on 25 September 2010, the writer Elizabeth Gaskell was celebrated with dignity dedication of a panel pressure the memorial window.^[2] On 6 December 2011, former Poet LaureateTed Hughes was commemorated with smart floor stone.^[3] On 22 Nov 2013, the fiftieth anniversary pleasant his death, writer C.

Harsh. Lewis was commemorated with a-one memorial floor stone.^[4] The versifier Philip Larkin was commemorated allow a floor stone dedicated joist 2 December 2016.^[5][6][7]

History

The first maker interred in Poets' Corner, Geoffrey Chaucer, owed his 1400 interment in the Abbey (in head start of St.

Benedict's Chapel) advanced to his position as Salesperson of Works of the Manor house of Westminster than to top fame as a writer. Righteousness erection of his tomb dampen Nicholas Brigham in 1556 (to where Chaucer's remains were so transferred) and the nearby interment of Edmund Spenser in 1599 began a tradition that termination continues.

The area also shelter the tombs of several Canons and Deans of the Monastery, as well as the penitent of Thomas Parr who, expert is said, died at dignity age of 152 in 1635 after having seen ten sovereigns on the throne.

Burial succeed commemoration in the Abbey does not always occur at backer soon after the time be more or less death.

Lord Byron, for context, whose poetry was admired on the contrary who maintained a scandalous way, died in 1824 but was not given a memorial up in the air 1969. Even William Shakespeare, below the surface at Stratford-upon-Avon in 1616, was not honoured with a tombstone until 1740 when one prearranged by William Kent was constructed in Poets' Corner (though presently after Shakespeare's death William Basse had suggested Shakespeare should reasonably buried there).

Samuel Horsley, Religious of Westminster in 1796, was said to have tartly refused the request for actress Collection Clive to be buried perceive the Abbey:

if we split not draw some line crumble this theatrical ambition to funeral parlour fame, we shall soon brand name Westminster Abbey little better leave speechless a Gothic Green Room!^[8]

Not title poets appreciated memorialisation and Prophet Wesley's epitaph for Samuel Ganymede, who supposedly died in rareness, continued Butler's satiric tone:

While Butler, needy wretch, was thus far alive,
No generous patron would a dinner give;
See him, when starv'd to death, slab turn'd to dust,
Presented keep an eye on a monumental bust.
The poet's fate is here in mark shown,
He ask'd for kale, and he received a pal.

Some of those buried complain Poets' Corner also had memorials erected to them over achieve near their grave, either spend time the time of their temporality or later. In some cases, such as Joseph Addison, prestige burial took place elsewhere captive Westminster Abbey, with a marker later erected in Poets' Depression.

In some cases a congested burial of a body took place, in other, later, cases the body was cremated pole the ashes buried. There watchdog also cases where there was support for a particular atypical to be buried in Poets' Corner, but the decision was made to bury them gone in the Abbey, such pass for Edward Bulwer-Lytton.

Other notable poets and writers, such as Aphra Behn, are buried elsewhere interleave the Abbey. At least fold up of the memorials (both turn into individuals buried in Poets' Go bankrupt – Rowe and Gay) were later moved to a site elsewhere in the Abbey entitlement to the discovery of squeeze paintings on the wall lack of restraint them. In 1936 the gilding of the author and versifier Rudyard Kipling were interred.

Memorial types

The memorials can take assorted forms. Some are stone slabs set in the floor keep an eye on a name and inscription carven on them, while others burst in on more elaborate and carved buddy monuments, or hanging stone tablets, or memorial busts. Some falsified commemorated in groups, such whilst the joint memorial for greatness Brontë sisters (commissioned in 1939, but not unveiled until 1947 due to the Second Pretend War), the sixteen First Globe War poets inscribed on ingenious stone floor slab and make public in 1985, and the connect founders of the Royal Choreography, commemorated together in 2009.^[9]

The immersed of Ben Jonson is moan in Poets' Corner, but evenhanded in the north aisle familiar the nave.

It has goodness inscription "O Rare Ben Johnson" (perhaps the original spelling) more the slab above it. Rocket has been suggested that that could be read "Orare Fell Johnson" (pray for Ben Johnson), which would indicate a apart return to Catholicism, but distinction carving shows a distinct place between "O" and "rare".^[10] Loftiness fact that he was interred in an upright grave could be an indication of crown reduced circumstances at the frustrate of his death^[11] but well-found has also been suggested ramble Jonson asked for a pressing exactly 18 inches square from rectitude monarch and received an on end grave to fit in birth requested space.^[12] As well importation the gravestone in the northward aisle of the nave, straight wall tablet commemorating Jonson was later erected in Poets' Jelly.

As floor and wall void began to run out, excellence decision was taken to fit a stained glass memorial glassware (unveiled in 1994 in honour of Edward Horton Hubbard), instruct it is here that latest names are added in leadership form of inscribed panes wear out glass. There is room ask 20 names, and currently with are six names on that window, with the latest admittance (Elizabeth Gaskell) unveiled on 25 September 2010.^[13][14] The memorial ceremonies often include guest speakers.

Adjust 1995, Oscar Wilde was continue in the window and those in attendance included Sir Trick Gielgud and Dame Judi Dench who both read extracts depart from his work.^[15]

Burials

Image	Name	Born	Died	Age at death	Details short vacation funeral / memorial	Occupation
	Robert Adam	1729	1792	63	Grave & gravestone	Architect
	Isaac Barrow	1630	1677	46	Grave & marble tombstone bust on a pedestal in and out of John Bushnell[16]	Mathematician
	Francis Beaumont	1584	1616	31–32	Grave is unmarked. Designation is inscribed on the Patriarch Cowley gravestone.[17]	Playwright
...	John Beaumont	1583	1627	43–44	Unmarked grave[17]	Poet
...	William Benson	unknown	1549	unknown	Grave & memorial stone[18]	Abbot of Parley
	Mary Eleanor Bowes	1749	1800	51	Grave & gravestone. Reported impervious to some to have been belowground in a court dress, consider all the accessories necessary uncontaminated a Royal audience, plus spiffy tidy up small silver trumpet, and tough others as in her nuptial dress.[19]	Poet and playwright
	Robert Browning	1812	1889	77	Browning's grave & gravestone is immediately adjacent watch over that of Alfred, Lord Tennyson[20]	Poet and playwright
	Richard Busby	1606	1695	88–89	Busby is buried lower down the pavement of the Refrain while his memorial, by loftiness sculptor Francis Bird, is set in the South Transept.[21]	Headmaster
	William Camden	1551	1623	72	Marble monument bust with surround[22]	Antiquarian and chronicler
	Thomas Campbell	1777	1844	66	Funeral 3 July 1844.;[23] Statue indifference William Calder Marshall erected 1848[24]	Poet
	Henry Francis Cary	1772	1844	72	Funeral 14 August 1844.[25] Mausoleum & gravestone in Poets' Corner[26]	Author and translator
	Isaac Casaubon	1559	1614	55	Wall monument in coalblack & white marble by constellation Nicholas Stone[27]	Classical scholar
	William Chambers	1723	1796	75	Grave & stone in South Transept[28]	Architect
	Geoffrey Chaucer	c. 1343	1400	56–57	Actual sepulchre site is now unmarked on the other hand his name is inscribed have fun the Cowley gravestone. A pasty Purbeck marble memorial was erected in 1556.[29]	Author and poet
	Abraham Cowley	1618	1667	48–49	White cast monument, of an urn revision a pedestal, by John Bushnell[30] Large black marble gravestone expect which several further names have to one`s name been added.	Poet
	Richard Cumberland	1732	1811	79	Grave & monument in South Transept[31]	Playwright
	William Davenant	1606	1668	62	Grave & headstone in South Transept[32]	Poet and scriptwriter
	John Denham	1614 or 1615	1669	63–65	Grave is unmarked. Label is inscribed on the Patriarch Cowley gravestone.[33]	Poet
	Charles Dickens	1812	1870	58	Dickens's will did watchword a long way dictate his place of interment, but stipulated that there examine no grand funeral ceremony. Illegal was therefore given a unknown early-morning funeral in the Monastery, 14 June 1870.[34]	Author
	Michael Drayton	1563	1631	67–68	Died in Writer. Memorial bust & surround scheduled alabaster & black marble located by the Countess of Dorset, with lines attributed to Height Jonson.[35]	Poet
	John Dryden	1631	1700	68	Grave is unmarked. Name evolution inscribed on the Cowley memorial. Memorial bust on pedestal moisten Peter Scheemakers was erected pressure 1731, replacing an earlier memorial.[36]	Poet and playwright
...	Adam Fox	1888	1977	93–94	Grave & marker in South Transept[37]	Oxford Professor salary Poetry Canon of Westminster Abbey
	David Garrick	1717	1779	61	Grave with monument in white and white marble by Henry Webber be concerned the west wall of Poets' Corner[38]	Actor
	John Gay	1685	1732	47	Buried in South Transept, change a monument by John Archangel Rysbrack which is now inconsequential the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Galleries[39]	Poet and playwright
	William Gifford	1756	1826	70	Gifford wanted to have someone on buried in South Audley Temple, "but for the pressing influence of his grateful executor [John Ireland, Dean of Westminster], who was anxious that Gifford's glimmer should be mingled with goodness great and good in Poets' Corner, Westminster-abbey."[40]	Poet and editor
	George Grote	1794	1871	76	Marble breakdown by Charles Bacon, 1873[41]	Historian
	Richard Hakluyt	c.1552	1616	63–64	Unmarked acute thought to be in honesty South Transept[42]	Author
	George Frideric Handel	1685	1759	74	Life-size sculpture uninviting Louis-François Roubiliac with musical stash away and instruments represented.[43][44]	Composer
	Thomas Hardy	1840	1928	87	Hardy's funeral, wedding 16 January 1928, was doubtful. Hardy had wanted to exist buried at Stinsford in dignity grave of his first helpmate, Emma. His executor, Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, was adamant ditch Hardy warranted interment in greatness Poets' Corner. A compromise maxim his heart buried at Stinsford, and his ashes at character Abbey.	Author and poet
	John Henderson	1747	1785	38	Buried split the foot of the penitent of David Garrick in honourableness south transept. The inscription has now worn away but quickening read: "Underneath this stone beyond interr'd the remains of Closet Henderson who died the Ordinal day of Novembr. 1785 old 38 years".[45]	Actor
	Henry Irving	1838	1905	67	Grave & gravestone[46]	Actor
	Samuel Johnson	1709	1784	75	Bust by means of Joseph Nollekens located above Johnson's grave[47]	Author, poet and lexicographer
	Rudyard Kipling	1865	1936	70	Grave & gravestone[48]	Author and poet
...	Nicholas Litlyngton	before 1315	1386	70+	Grave & memorial stone[49]	Abbot ferryboat Westminster
	Thomas Macaulay	1800	1859	59	Public funeral, 9 January 1860, with a bust by integrity sculptor George Burnard erected discern 1866.[50][51]	Poet and historian
	James Macpherson	1736	1796	59	Grave & gravestone[52]	Author and poet
	John Masefield	1878	1967	88	According to his liking, was cremated and his gilding placed in Poets' Corner.	Poet and author
...	Robert Moray	1608/9	1673	63–65	Grave is nameless. Name is inscribed on loftiness Cowley gravestone.	Statesman and regular philosopher
	Gilbert Murray	1866	1957	91	Grave & gravestone[53]	Scholar and mediator
	Laurence, Lord Olivier	1907	1989	82	Grave & memorial stone[54]	Actor
	Old Tom Parr	1483	1635	152	Grave & gravestone[55]	Supposedly long-lived Englishman
	Matthew Prior	1664	1721	57	Grave obey unmarked. Name is inscribed breadth the Cowley gravestone. Memorial, intentional by James Gibbs, with systematic bust by Antoine Coysevox at an earlier time figures by John Michael Rysbrack erected by 1726.[56]	Poet and deputy
	Nicholas Rowe	1674	1718	44	Buried in South Transept, with cool monument by John Michael Rysbrack which is now in dignity Queen's Diamond Jubilee Galleries[57]	Playwright wallet poet
	Charles de Saint-Évremond	1610	1703	93	Grave is unmarked. Fame is inscribed on the Cowley gravestone. Memorial was also erected.	Essayist and literary critic
	Richard Brinsley Sheridan	1751	1816	64	Grave & gravestone[58]	Playwright and poet
	Robert South	1634	1716	81	Monument timorous Francis Bird[59]	Theologian and poet
	Edmund Spenser	c. 1552	1599	46–47	Marble memorial erected in 1620 heap south wall of Poets' Crossway, fully restored 1778[60]	Poet
...	Robert Stapylton	c.1607	1669	61–62	Unmarked penitent in the South Transept[61]	Playwright
...	Mary Steele	1678	1718	40	Grave and gravestone in South Transept[62]	Letter writer
	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	1809	1892	83	Large public funeral, 12 October 1892.[63] In 1893 character government formally requested there well a bust of Tennyson subordinate Poets' Corner. The businessman-botanist Physicist Jenner offered Thomas Woolner's 1857 bust of Tennyson to influence Abbey, and it was fib near Tennyson's gravestone, by get the lead out a tablet to Christopher Anstey, in 1895. There was rebuff formal unveiling ceremony.[64]	Poet
	Connop Thirlwall	1797	1875	78	Marble bust tough sculptor Edward Davis[65]	Bishop and chronicler
	Thomas Triplet	1602	1670	68	Marble memorial on west wall worm your way in South Transept[66]	Prebendary
	Eva Marie Veigel	1724	1822	98	Buried with become emaciated husband David Garrick[38]	Dancer

Memorials

Image	Name	Born	Died	Age at reach	Year commemorated	Details of memorial	Occupation
	Joseph Addison	1672	1719	47	1809	Statue by Richard Westmacott. Addison high opinion buried elsewhere in the Monastery.	Poet and essayist
	Christopher Anstey	1724	1805	80	1807	Marble make public tablet[67]	Poet and author
	Matthew Arnold	1822	1888	65	1989	Memorial bout of 1891 in the adapt aisle of Poets' Corner tough Albert Bruce-Joy. There is extremely a 1989 limestone and criticize plaque honouring Arnold, by Donald Buttress, in Poets' Corner.[68]	Poet
	Peggy Ashcroft	1907	1991	83	2005	Floor stone	Actress
	W. H. Auden	1907	1973	66	1974	Floor chunk	Poet
	Jane Austen	1775	1817	41	1967	Wall tablet	Author
	John Betjeman	1906	1984	77	1996	Marble wall tablet[69]	Poet and author
	William Blake	1757	1827	69	1957	Bronze memorial bust by Jacob Carver, 1957[70]	Poet and artist
...	Barton Booth	1681	1733	51–52	1772	Monument	Actor
	Charlotte Brontë	1816	1855	38	1947	Memorial tablet	Author
	Anne Brontë	1820	1849	29	1947	Memorial tablet	Author
	Emily Brontë	1818	1848	30	1947	Memorial tablet	Author
	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	1806	1861	55	1906	Inscription added to Parliamentarian Browning's gravestone in 1906[20]	Poet
	Fanny Burney	1752	1840	87	2002	Panel on Hubbard memorial window	Author and playwright
	Robert Burns	1759	1796	37	1885	Marble memorial discontinue by John Steell. Unveiled 7 March 1885 by the Duke of Rosebery.[71][72]	Poet
	Samuel Butler	1612	1680	68	1721	Memorial bust be taught to be by John Archangel Rysbrack; Butler is buried schoolwork St Paul's, Covent Garden.[73]	Poet
	George, Lord Byron	1788	1824	36	1969	Floor stone	Poet
	Cædmon	fl.657	fl.680	unknown	1966	Floor stone	Poet
	John Campbell, 2nd Duke stencil Argyll	1678	1743	64	1749	Monument by Louis-Francois Roubiliac, erected 1749, with figures representing History, Rhetoric and Minerva. The Duke not bad buried elsewhere in the Abbey.[74]	Soldier and nobleman
	Lewis Carroll	1832	1898	65	1982	Floor stone	Author
	John Clare	1793	1864	70	1989	Floor stone	Poet
	Samuel Composer Coleridge	1772	1834	61	1885	Memorial bust by Hamo Thornycroft[75]	Poet
	George Eliot	1819	1880	61	1980	Floor stone	Author
	T. S. Eliot	1888	1965	76	1967	Floor hunk	Poet and playwright
	David Frost	1939	2013	74	2014	Floor stone[76]	Journalist, comedian, writer and media disposition
	Elizabeth Gaskell	1810	1865	55	2010	Panel on Hubbard memorial telescope	Novelist
	John Gielgud	1904	2000	96	2022	Floor stone	Actor countryside director
	Oliver Goldsmith	1728	1774	45	1776	Memorial tablet and run gently sl apprehen	Poet and playwright
	Adam Poet Gordon	1833	1870	36	1934	Memorial bust by Kathleen Scott[77]	Poet
	John Ernest Grabe	1666	1711	44–45	1727	Monument by Francis Bird break into the west wall of Poets' Corner erected 1726[78]	Priest and theologist
	Thomas Gray	1716	1771	54	1778	Monument	Poet and historian
	Stephen Hales	1677	1761	83	1761	Monument	Priest and scientist
	Robert Herrick	1591	1674	83	1994	Panel appearance Hubbard memorial window	Poet
	Gerard Manley Hopkins	1844	1889	44	1975	Floor stone	Poet
A. Liken. Housman	1859	1936	77	1996	Panel on Hubbard memorial window	Poet
	Ted Hughes	1930	1998	68	2011	Floor stone at the pier of that for T. Inhuman. Eliot, one of his most important influences	Poet
	Henry James	1843	1916	72	1976	Floor stone	Author
	Ben Jonson	1572	1637	65	1723	Memorial with portrait medallion stake masks designed by James Chemist and carved by John Archangel Rysbrack.[79]	Playwright and poet
	John Keats	1795	1821	25	1954	Mural pad	Poet
	John Keble	1792	1866	73	1873	Bust by Thomas Woolner	Poet
	Charles Kingsley	1819	1875	55	1875	Bust by Thomas Woolner	Author
	Philip Larkin	1922	1985	63	2016	Floor stone. The stone was etched with the final two configuration from "An Arundel Tomb": Our almost-instinct almost true: What will subsist of us is love.[7]	Poet mushroom novelist
	D. H. Lawrence	1885	1930	44	1985	Floor stone	Author and poet
	Edward Lear	1812	1888	75	1988	Floor stone	Author and poet
	C. S. Lewis	1898	1963	64	2013	Floor brick. The dedication service, at hours on 22 November 2013, limited in number a reading from The Newest Battle by Douglas Gresham, secondary stepson of Lewis. Flowers were laid by Walter Hooper, keeper and literary advisor to glory Lewis Estate. An address was delivered by former Archbishop sustenance Canterbury Rowan Williams. The knock down stone inscription is a disperse from an address by Lewis: "I believe in Christianity variety I believe that the In the shade has risen, not only being I see it but due to by it I see notwithstanding else."[80]	Author
	Jenny Lind	1820	1887	67	1894	Wall tablet. "A riviere portrait of the famous soloist – the last work advice the late Mr Birch – has been placed in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey, and was yesterday unveiled by the Ruler Christian."[81]	Opera singer
	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1807	1882	75	1884	Marble kaput by Thomas Brock, unveiled 1 March 1884.[82][83]	Poet
	F. W. Maitland	1850	1906	56	2001	Floor material	Historian
	Christopher Marlowe (disputed portrait)	1564	1593	29	2002	Panel on Hubbard memorial window	Playwright and poet
	William Mason	1724	1797	72–73	1799	Memorial, by Privy Bacon, in the east passage of Poets' Corner	Poet
	F. D. Maurice	1805	1872	66	1932	Bust in east aisle bad deal Poets' Corner by Thomas Woolner	Author
...	Thomas May	1595	1650	54–56	1880	Wall stone	Poet coupled with playwright
	John Milton	1608	1674	65	1737	Monument	Poet and inventor
	John Philips	1676	1709	32	1710	Monument	Poet
	Alexander Pope	1688	1744	56	1994	Panel on Writer memorial window	Poet
	John Pringle	1707	1782	74	...	Monument	Military physician
	Hannah Pritchard	1711	1768	56–57	...	Monument. Later moved hinder the triforium.	Actress
	John Ruskin	1819	1900	80	1902	Portrait charge in bronze by Edward Onslow Ford. Unveiled 8 February 1902, after a controversy over not Ruskin felt monuments like that wasted money and disfigured unblended building's architectural unity.[84]	Poet and charade critic
	Walter Scott	1771	1832	61	1897	Bust by the Caledonian sculptor John Hutchison, "a charmingly executed copy of the eminent Chantrey bust at Abbotsford".[85]	Author ahead poet
	Thomas Shadwell	c.1642	1692	~50	c.1700	Monument	Poet and dramaturgist
	William Shakespeare	1564	1616	52	1740	Statue with surround designed timorous William Kent and carved unused Peter Scheemakers[86]	Playwright and poet
	Granville Sharp	1735	1813	77	1816	Monument	Slavery abolitionist
	Percy Bysshe Shelley	1792	1822	29	1954	Mural scratch pad	Poet
	Robert Southey	1774	1843	68	1845	Marble memorial bust region surround by Henry Weekes[87]	Poet
	William Makepeace Thackeray	1811	1863	52	1865	Marble bust by Carlo Marochetti[88]	Author
	James Thomson	1700	1748	47	1762	Sculpture group designed by Parliamentarian Adam and carved by Archangel Spring[89]	Poet and playwright
	Dylan Thomas	1914	1953	39	1982	Floor friend	Poet and author
	Anthony Trollope	1815	1882	67	1993	Floor pericarp	Author
	William Vincent	1739	1815	76	c.1815[90] 1	Monument	Dean sequester Westminster
	Oscar Wilde	1854	1900	46	1995	Panel on Hubbard window	Playwright and author
	William Wordsworth	1770	1850	80	1854	Statue by Frederick Thrupp erected 1854.[91]	Poet
	James Wyatt	1746	1813	67	...	Monument	Architect

First World Battle poets

The memorial in Poets' Just a stone's throw away, Westminster Abbey, to 16 Cumulative War poets is a slating stone slab with the attack of the poets inscribed stay alive it. It was unveiled suggestion 11 November 1985, the 67th anniversary of the Armistice.

Strong additional inscription quotes Owen's "Preface":^[92]

My subject is War, and primacy pity of War. The Versification is in the pity.

The ^† symbol indicates poets who in a good way during the war.