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• Sir John Denham

  Poet

  Sir John Denham, poet, was buried on 23rd March 1669 in Poets' Corner, near Chaucer's tomb. He has no monument and had no inscribed gravestone.

• Rudyard Kipling

  Writer and Poet

  The ashes of Rudyard Kipling, poet and writer, were buried in Poets' Corner at noon on 23rd January 1936. His books include The Jungle Book.

• Thomas Gray

  Poet

  A memorial to poet Thomas Gray is in the east aisle of Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey, below that to John Milton.

• Sir William Davenant

  Poet

  The poet Sir William Davenant is buried in Poets' Corner. He was buried in the grave from which his rival Thomas May had been ejected.

• Lewis Carroll

  Writer and Poet

  On 17th December 1982 a memorial in Poets’ Corner was dedicated to the poet and writer universally known as Lewis Carroll.

• Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Poet

  In Poets' Corner is a mural tablet with a lyre to Romantic poet Percy Shelley. This is joined to an identical tablet for John Keats.

• Thomas Babington Macaulay

  Poet and Historian

  Thomas Babington (Macaulay), 1st Baron Macaulay, historian and poet, was buried at the foot of Joseph Addison's statue in Poets' Corner on 9th January 1860.

• Michael Drayton

  Poet

  In Poets' Corner is a monument to poet Michael Drayton (or Draiton). The monument was erected by the Countess of Dorset.

• Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Poet and Priest/Minister

  A memorial stone to Gerard Manley Hopkins, poet, was unveiled on 8th December 1975 in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey by the Duke of Norfolk.

• Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Playwright and Statesman

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan, statesman, dramatist and wit, was buried in Poets’ Corner. The inscription on his gravestone was re-cut in 1956 but is now faint.

• William Mason

  Poet

  Poet William Mason has a memorial in Poets' Corner. It is in the east aisle near the memorial to Thomas Gray, whose epitaph he composed.

• John Masefield

  Poet

  The ashes of poet and novelist John Masefield were buried in Poets’ Corner on 20th June 1967. The grave adjoins that of Robert Browning.

• Oliver Goldsmith

  Writer

  In Poets' Corner Westminster Abbey is a marble memorial to author Oliver Goldsmith by J. Nollekens.

• Me and Mr Bennett

• Sir Roger Bannister honoured with new memorial stone

  A memorial stone to Sir Roger Bannister CH CBE was dedicated in Westminster Abbey on Tuesday 28th September 2021.

• The Queen's Window by David Hockney is revealed

  Westminster Abbey will today unveil a new stained glass window designed by David Hockney and commissioned to celebrate the reign of Her Majesty The Queen.

• Abbey dedicates memorial to C S Lewis

  A Service to Dedicate a Memorial to C S Lewis, writer, scholar and apologist, was held at Westminster Abbey on Friday 22nd November 2013.

• Candlelit Vigil marks Great War Centenary

  Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cornwall GCVO, representing Her Majesty The Queen, attended a Solemn Commemoration on the Centenary of the Outbreak of the First World War at Westminster Abbey on Monday 4th August at 10pm.