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    playwrights, and writers are buried or commemorated. The first poet interred in Poets' Corner was Geoffrey Chaucer in 1400. William Shakespeare was commemorated...
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    Beerbohm, Max 'The Poets' Corner' William Heinemann (1904) The Poets's Corner on the National Library of Australia website The Poets' Corner – Max Beerbohm...
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    in the abbey. A second poet, Edmund Spenser (who was local to the abbey), was buried nearby in 1599. The idea of a Poets' Corner did not crystallise until...
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    Since its advent, Poets Corner has published over 340 poets in 21 anthologies in both English and Hindi language. The Poets Corner Group also hosts online...
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  • the abbey. Other poets, writers and musicians were buried or memorialised around Chaucer in what became known as the Poets' Corner. These include: W...
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    newspapers (such as The Advertiser and The Australian) also serve the area. Poets' Corner, the area of Tranmere bordered by Richardson Avenue (north), Birkinshaw...
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    and Walt Whitman being the first poets to be inducted as part of the tradition. The Poets' Corner consists of a poet-in-residence, hired for a five-year...
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    Rudyard Kipling (category 19th-century English poets)
    British Poet Laureateship and several times for a knighthood, but declined both. Following his death in 1936, his ashes were interred at Poets' Corner, part...
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    Geoffrey Chaucer (category English Catholic poets)
    was the first writer to be buried in what has since come to be called Poets' Corner, in Westminster Abbey. Chaucer also gained fame as a philosopher and...
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  • first prize. In 1937, Jean Overton Fuller submitted a poem to "The Poets' Corner" and was drawn into Neuburg's circle, eventually becoming his biographer...
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    Easington, Poets Corner and the Timms estate are three interconnecting estates in the town of Banbury, in the civil parish of Banbury, in the Cherwell...
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    he had been engaged as a speaker. His memorial stone was unveiled in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey in March 2014. David Paradine Frost was born in...
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    The Way of the World (1700). He died in London, and was buried at the Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey. William Congreve was born in Bardsey Grange, on...
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  • "Poets' Corner" Archived June 21, 2013, at the Wayback Machine. UNB Archives' 225th Anniversary Projects. Retrieved March 3, 2012. "Poets' Corner" Archived...
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    located in Lynn Valley. A niche of Lynn Valley is Poet's Corner, a series of street names of past poets. These include Shakespeare, Tennyson, William, Chaucer...
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    Max Beerbohm (category British humorous poets)
    caricatures included Caricatures of Twenty-five Gentlemen (1896), The Poets' Corner (1904), Fifty Caricatures (1913) and Rossetti and His Circle (1922)...
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    safer areas. Enderley neighbourhood Poets' Corner (so called due to many of the streets being named after poets such as Tennyson, Wordsworth, Blake and...
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    Lewis Carroll (category 19th-century English poets)
    1879 and 1881. In 1982 a memorial stone to Carroll was unveiled at Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey. There are societies in many parts of the world...
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  • C. S. Lewis (category 20th-century poets from Northern Ireland)
    50th anniversary of his death, Lewis was honoured with a memorial in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey. Clive Staples Lewis was born in Belfast in Ulster...
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    Murray died in Oxford in 1957, aged 91. His ashes were interred in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey. Murray was born in Sydney, Australia. He came from...
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    lavish public funeral at Westminster Abbey where he was laid to rest in Poets' Corner. As an actor, Garrick promoted realistic acting that departed from the...
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    his funerary monument in Stratford-upon-Avon (c. 1623); a statue in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey, London, designed by William Kent and executed...
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  • Ted Hughes (category 20th-century English poets)
    October 1998) was an English poet, translator, and children's writer. Critics frequently rank him as one of the best poets of his generation and one of...
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  • Dylan Thomas (category 20th-century Welsh poets)
    "Dylan Thomas: a Great Poet?". Wales Arts Review. Retrieved 10 May 2020. "About Dylan Thomas: Academy of American Poets". poets.org. Retrieved 10 May 2020...
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    fireside poets – also known as the schoolroom or household poets – were a group of 19th-century American poets associated with New England. These poets were...
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  • Kanye West as well as spoken word lyrics by The Last Poets. The song's lyrics deal with street corners in poor neighborhoods. The song's beat contains samples...
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  • Narnia author, honoured in Poets' corner". The Telegraph. Retrieved 24 February 2013 "CS Lewis to be honoured in Poets' Corner". BBC News. Retrieved 23...
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    Westminster Abbey in October that year, where his ashes were later buried in Poets' Corner. Olivier was appointed Knight Bachelor in the 1947 Birthday Honours...
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    Lord Byron (category 19th-century English poets)
    English poet and peer. He is one of the major figures of the Romantic movement, and is regarded as being among the greatest of British poets. Among his...
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    long-time agent Audrey Wood. In late 2009, Williams was inducted into the Poets' Corner at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in New York. Performers and...
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