Poets Corner
About Poets Corner
Poets' Corner is a section of the southern transept of Westminster Abbey in London, England, where many poets, playwrights, and writers are buried or commemorated.
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They struck a deal whereby he went to Poets Corner and his heart went to Stensford, and they both had a funeral at 2pm on the 16th of January 1928.
from 512: No Such Thing As A Dirty Bar Of Soap, 2024-01-04 at 00:18:58 · read transcript
Other times Poets Corner came up
Then he died. and then his friends, including James Barry of Peter Pan. Peter Pan fame and Sidney Cockrell, who slightly less well-treated by history, but I'm sure a big deal at the time. They went to his home basically on his death, and they said, we think he should be buried in Poets Corner in Westminsterrabee. He's a huge, huge deal. They kind of bullied Thomas Hardy's second wife, Florence, into going along with it.
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