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A 6.5 page paper (6 pp. + .5 pg. outline) which provides information on when it was built, background information on the poets and writers who are buried there and how some were memorialized there years after they died. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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6 pages (~225 words per page)
File: TG15_TGwapoets.rtf
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(Hardy iii), he summarized in a single observation the essence and lasting appeal of the section of Englands Westminster Abbey that has become forever known as the Poets Corner.
This is the greatest tribute that can be bestowed upon a British literary figure - to receive a final resting place within the hallowed walls of its countrys national church.
As the name implies, Poets Corner had once been limited as a memorial only to the writers of prose, but so sought after became the distinction, that it soon
included other authors (and eventually musicians and actors) as well. Poets Corner is time-honored burial tradition where men of arts and letters take their place alongside kings and queens,
and where visitors can relive cherished moments of British history, back to when Lord Alfred Tennyson was crossing the bar, and time seems to - for a brief moment at
least - stand still. London houses three cathedrals, but there is none more grand or charming than the majestic Westminster Abbey (Gilbert 414). In a text published in the
early 1900s that chronicled the churchs history - which not surprisingly mirrors the nations own tumultuous political history - the author appropriately waxed poetic when he observed of Poets Corner,
"To wander around the Poets Corner along the echoing aisles, and stand in front of each memorial... serve... to awaken the imagination... To stand in the presence of the
great dead, or in lieu to read their epitaphs, casts a great fascination over the mind, and makes one linger within the precincts of the historic abbey till a rude
awakening comes... that it is closing-time" (Gilbert 415-416). There was originally no intention of constructing a Poets Corner back in the seventh century, when Saxon King Sebert decided to
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