Poets’ Corner, Westminster Abbey, is a place of pilgrimage for literature lovers. More than 100 poets and writers are buried or have memorials here. And, so began a tradition of burials and memorials ...

Dickens’ friend and biographer ... was buried near to Chaucer, that the concept of a ‘Poets' Corner’ in the Abbey was begun. By the 1730s, the absence of a memorial to William Shakespeare was seen as ...

On 16th January 1928 the ashes of the poet and writer Thomas Hardy were buried in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey, immediately to the north of the grave of Charles Dickens. But his heart is buried ...

In his will, Dickens asked to be buried in Rochester Cathedral, but was laid to rest in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey. He also requested that no memorial be made to him, and this has been ...

The ashes of Rudyard Kipling, poet and writer, were buried in Poets' Corner at noon on 23 January 1936, next to the graves of Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy. The inscription on the stone reads: ...

On a pillar in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey is a white marble bust ... A petition to the Dean of Westminster for permission to erect a memorial was signed by Charles Dickens and many other ...