Poets' Corner - Elsewhere in The Abbey

Elsewhere in The Abbey

Poets and writers commemorated elsewhere in Westminster Abbey, but not in Poets' Corner proper.

Image Name Born Died Age at death Year
commemorated		 Details of
memorial		 Notes on
artistic career
... Robert Ayton 1570 1638 67–68 Bust Poet
Aphra Behn 1640 1689 48 Gravestone Author and playwright
Edward Bulwer Lytton 1803 1873 69 Gravestone Author and poet
John Bunyan 1628 1688 59 1912 Memorial window Author
Margaret Cavendish 1623 1673 69–70 Monument Author and poet
William Cavendish 1592 1676 84 Monument Playwright and poet
William Congreve 1670 1729 58 c.1730 Monument Playwright and poet
Noël Coward 1899 1973 73 1984 Floor stone Playwright and composer
William Cowper 1731 1800 68 1876 Memorial window Poet and hymnodist
Wentworth Dillon 1637 1685 47–48 Grave not marked Poet
Benjamin Disraeli 1804 1881 76 1884 Statue Author
George Herbert 1593 1633 39 1876 Memorial window Poet and orator
Robert Howard 1626 1698 72 Playwright
Charles Kingsley 1819 1875 55 1875 Bust Author
James R. Lowell 1819 1891 72 Tablet and window Poet
F. D. Maurice 1805 1872 66 1932 Bust Author
Anne Oldfield 1683 1730 47 Gravestone Actress
Henry Spelman c.1564 1641 76–77 Gravestone Antiquarian
Arthur P. Stanley 1815 1881 65 1884 Tomb and effigy Author
Isaac Watts 1674 1748 74 1779 Monument Hymnodist

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