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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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 1989, after meeting while working on the Off-off-Broadway play The PoetsCorner. They had twin sons in 1992, and were married until Thomson’s death...
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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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    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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  • "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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    Abbey's Poets' Corner, next to William Shakespeare and underneath Thomson's countryman, Robert Burns. Thomson is the poet memorialised at Poets' Corner in...
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  • Philip Larkin (category Formalist poets)
    anniversary of his death, a floor stone memorial for Larkin was unveiled at Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey. 'You look as if you wished the place in Hell,'...
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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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  • Daniel Haberman (category American male poets)
    (1933–1991) was an American poet, translator and graphic designer. Haberman was instrumental in founding the American Poets' Corner at the Cathedral of St...
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    manners. He died in London in 1729, and was honored with burial at the Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey. William Congreve was born in Bardsey Grange, in...
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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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    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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    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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    policy at the time of the Peace of the Pyrenees (1659). He is buried in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey. He wrote for his friends and did not intend his...
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    a lavish public funeral at Westminster Abbey where he was buried in Poets' Corner. As an actor, Garrick promoted realistic acting that departed from the...
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    He was the guardian of Francis Ferrand Foljambe during his minority. Poets' Corner "William Mason (M742W)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of...
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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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    British Poets, the design of which had been projected years before. The work was published in 1819. It contains a selection with short lives of the poets, and...
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    Kent-designed memorial to William Shakespeare which was erected in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey in 1740, as well as that to John Dryden in the...
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    copied from Scheemakers's 18th-century monument to Shakespeare in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey, stands on a pedestal flanked by dolphins at the...
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