What famous poets are buried at Poets Corner in Westminster Abbey?
1) Those were more or less famous poets (eventually among other things like novelists): Robert Browning, Thomas Campbell, Geoffrey Chaucer, John Dryden, Thomas Hardy, Samuel Johnson, Edmund Spenser, [Alfred, Lord] Tennyson, Rudyard Kipling. Other famous persons buried there: Charles Dickens, George Frideric Handel, Laurence Olivier. 2) “Poets’ Corner is the name traditionally given to a section of the South Transept of Westminster Abbey due to the number of poets, playwrights, and writers now buried and commemorated there. The first person to be interred there was Geoffrey Chaucer, whose burial in the abbey owed more to his position as Clerk of Works of the Palace of Westminster than to his fame as a writer. However, the erection of a magnificent tomb by Nicholas Brigham to Chaucer in the middle of the sixteenth century and the nearby burial of Edmund Spenser in 1599 started a tradition that is still upheld, although the area also houses the tombs of several Canons and Deans of the abb
