page_title: Burials and memorials in Westminster Abbey
section_title: South Transept
hierarchical_section_title: Burials and memorials in Westminster Abbey / Burials / South Transept
caption_attribution_description: English: Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey.
context_page_description: Honouring individuals with burials and memorials in Westminster Abbey has a long tradition.
context_section_description: The following are buried in the South Transept which is known as Poets' Corner:
  Robert Adam
  Robert Browning
  William Camden
  Thomas Campbell
  Geoffrey Chaucer
  William Congreve
  Abraham Cowley
  William Davenant
  John Denham
  Charles Dickens
  Michael Drayton
  John Dryden
  Adam Fox
  David Garrick
  John Gay
  Gabriel Goodman
  George Frederick Handel
  Thomas Hardy (heart buried in Stinsford)
  Sir Henry Irving
  Dr Samuel Johnson
  Rudyard Kipling
  Thomas Macaulay
  John Masefield
  John Milton
  Anne Oldfield
  Laurence Olivier, Baron Olivier
  Thomas Parr
  Richard Brinsley Sheridan
  Edmund Spenser
  Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
caption: Poets' Corner
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