GRAVES OF THE POETS

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 12008, 10 December 1924, Page 16 (Supplement)

GRAVES OF THE POETS

A GALAXY IN WESTMINSTER. Chaucer was buried in the cloisters of Westminster Abbey, without the building, but removed to the south aisle in 155 o; Spenser lies near him. Beaumont, Drayton, Cowley, Denham, Dryden, Rowe, Addison, Prior, Congreve, Gay, Johnson, Sheridan, and Campbell all lie within Westminster Abbey. Shakespeare, as everyone knows, was buried in the chancel of the church at Stratford, where there is a monument to his memory. Chapman and Shirley was buried at St., Giles-in-the-Fields; Marlowe in the churchyard of St. Paul’s, Deptford; Fletcher and Massinger in the churchyard of St. Saviour’s, Southwark; Dr Donne in Old St. Paul’s; Edmund Waller in Beaconsfield churchyard; Milton in the churchyard of St. Giles’s, Oripplegate; Butler in the churchyard of St. Paul’s, Covent Garden; Otway, no one knows where; Garth, in the church at Harrow; Pope, in the church at Twickenham; Swift, in St. Patrick’s, Dublin; Savage, in the • churchyard of St. Peter’s, Bristol; Parnell, at Chester, where he died on his way to Dublin; Dr Young, at Welwyn, in Hertfordshire, of. which place he was the rector; Thomson, in the churchyard at Richmond, in Surrey;, Collins,, in St. Andrew’s Church, at Chichester; Gray, in the churchyard of Stoke-Poges, where he conceived his “Elegy”; Goldsmith, in the churchyard of the Temple Church; Falconer, at sea, with “all the ocean for his grave” ; Churchill, in the churcyard of St. Martin’s, Dover; Oowper, in the church at Dereham; Chatterton in a churchyard belonging to the parish of St. Andrew’6, Holborn; Rums, -in St. Michael’s churchyard, Dumfries; Byron, in the church of Hucknall, near Newstead; Crabbe, at Trowbridge; Coleridge, in the church at Higbgate; Sir Writer Scott, at Dryburgh Abbey.; Southey, in Crossthwaite Church, near Keswick; Shelley, ‘‘beneath one of the antique weed-grown towers , surrounding ancient Rome”; and Keats, beeide him, “under the pyramid, which is the tomb of Cestius.”