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The Poets' Corner
BOOK BY MAX BEERBOHM
The Poets' Corner is a book of twenty caricatures by English caricaturist, essayist and parodist Max Beerbohm. It was published in 1904 by William Heinemann, and was Beerbohm's second book of caricatures, the first being Caricatures of Twenty-five Gentlemen (1896).
Poets' Corner
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SOUTH TRANSEPT OF WESTMINSTER ABBEY
Poets' corner; Poet's Corner; Westminster Abbey/Poets Corner; Poet’s Corner; Poet's corner; Poets Corner; Poets’ Corner
·add. ·- An angle in the south transept of Westminster Abbey, London;
- so called because it contains the tombs of Chaucer, Spenser, Dryden, Ben Jonson, Gray, Tennyson, Browning, and other English poets, and memorials to many buried elsewhere.
Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets
BOOK BY SAMUEL JOHNSON
Lives of the English Poets; The Lives of the Poets; Lives of the Poets
Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (1779–81), alternatively known by the shorter title Lives of the Poets, is a work by Samuel Johnson comprising short biographies and critical appraisals of 52 poets, most of whom lived during the eighteenth century. These were arranged, approximately, by date of death.
Examples of use of The Poets' Corner
1. At AP NewsFeatures, he presided over a group of writers that came to be known as the Poets‘ Corner, including Pulitzer Prize winners Saul Pett and Hal Boyle, and Jules Loh, Sid Moody, Hugh Mulligan and others.
2. Brooding, as it were for prep, on the infinitely subtle–eared and trilbied Brian O‘Nolan – aka Flann O‘Brien, aka Myles na gCopaleen – in his famous Cruiskeen Lawn in the Irish Times, one came across this: "I noticed an interesting reference to Handel in this newspaper recently. ‘He died,‘ I read, ‘on the anniversary of the first performance of his greatest oratorio, and is fitly buried in the Poets‘ Corner of Westminster Abbey, for he is, indeed, the Milton of English musicians.‘ That makes James Joyce the Don Bradman of English literature and Oscar Wilde the Constable of English music–hall." Article continues Would it be possible, one wonders, following yesterday‘s triumphal procession through London, and within spit of the abbey, to compare our own sporting heroes to the great literary, theatrical, scientific and musical giants buried therein?