Poets’ Corner

Poets’ Corner
a part of Westminster Abbey where many famous English writers and poets are buried or where there are memorials to them. The writers and poets buried there include Chaucer, Browning, Tennyson, Dickens, Hardy and Kipling. There are also memorials to Shakespeare, Milton, Byron, Shelley (II) and many others.

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