What Is Poet's Corner?

A large number of poets, writers and playwrights were buried at a division of South Transept of Westminster Abbey. This division is called Poet's Corner. Westminster Abbey is The Collegiate Church of St Peter, Westminster. It is in Westminster, London and to its East is the Place of Westminster.

Geoffrey Chaucer was the first person who was interred here.  He received this famed burial due to his position of Clerks of Works of Palace of Westminster. Nicholas Brigham built a tomb honouring Chaucer and later Edmund Spencer was buried here in 1599. These two events started a trend of such praiseworthy burials.

Burials or tributes did not always take place soon after the deaths. Lord Byron, for example, was given the respectable burial forty-five years after his death. William Shakespeare who died in 1616, was commemorated with a monument in 1740.Robert Adam, Robert  Browning, William Camdem, Thomas Campbell, Charles Dickens, Adam Fox., Rudyard Kipling are a few who were honoured with such a burial. William Blake, Adam Lindsay Lohan, John Keats and Walter Scott are few people who were commemorate at Westminster Abbey with a monument.