Архитектурные шедевры Великобритании. Рябцева Е.В. - 23 стр.

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Some of the most famous to lie here include Ben Jonson, John Dryden, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Robert
Browning and John Masefield, among the poets, and William Camden, Dr Samuel Johnson, Charles Dickens,
William Makepeace Thackeray, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Rudyard Kipling and Thomas Hardy among the
writers.
Charles Dickens's grave attracts particular interest. As a writer who drew attention to the hardships born by
the socially deprived and who advocated the abolition of the slave trade, he won enduring fame and gratitude
and today, more than 110 years later, a wreath is still laid on his tomb on the anniversary of his death each year.
Those who have memorials here, although they are buried elsewhere, include among the poets John Milton,
William Wordsworth, Thomas Gray, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Burns, William Blake, T.S.
Eliot and Gerard Manley Hopkins, and among the writers Samuel Butler, Jane Austen, Oliver Goldsmith, Sir
Walter Scott, John Ruskin, Char-lotte, Emily and Anne Bronte and Henry James.
By no means all those buried in the South Transept are poets or writers, however. Several of West-
minster's former Deans, Arch-deacons, Prebendaries and Canons lie here, as do John Keble, the historian Lord
Macaulay, actors David Garrick, Sir Henry Irving and Mrs Hannah Pritchard, and, among many others, Thomas
Parr, who was said to be 152 years of age when he died in 1635, having seen ten sovereigns on the throne dur-
ing his long life.
Answer the following questions.
1. How was Poet’s Corner created?
2. Were famous poets and writers buried in Poet’s Corner right after their deaths?
3. Are the memorials in Poet’s Corner placed according to writer’s or poet’s literary worth?
4. Who lies in Poet’s Corner?
5. Why does Charles Dickens’s grave attract particular interest?
6. Who else lies in the South Transept except poets and writers?
It’s interesting to know.
Poets of Corner
William Shakespeare, poet and dramatist, was born at Stratford-upon-Avon in 1564, the son of a wool-
merchant. He mar-ried Anne Hathaway in 1582 and they had three children. In 1594 he moved to London and
joined the Chamberlain's company of players. From about 1590 onwards he wrote some thirty-seven plays,
ranging from history (‘Richard II’, ‘Henry IV’, ‘Henry V’ etc.) to lyrical romances (‘Romeo and Juliet’, ‘A
Midsummer Night's Dream’ etc.), and from comedies – some romantic (‘Twelfth Night’, ‘As You Like It’) but
others showing cynicism and recognition of the darker side of human nature (‘All's Well That Ends Well’,
‘Troilus and Cressida’) – to tragedy (‘Macbeth’, ‘Othello’, ‘King Lear’). He was also a poet, dedicating much
of his work to his patron, the Earl of Southampton, including the poems ‘Venus and Adonis’ and ‘The Rape of
Lucrece’. In later life he lived at New Place, Stratford-upon-Avon. He died in 1616 and was buried in the parish
church at Stratford. His memorial in Westminster Abbey was erected in 1740.
George Frederick Handel (1685 – 1759), is one of those who are not poets or writers, yet are buried in the
South Transept. This great musician and composer was born at Halle in Germany but settled in England in
1712. Among his most famous works are the 'Water Music' (composed for a water pageant in 1715) and the
'Music for the Royal Fireworks' (composed in 1749). However, it is his masterpiece the oratorio ‘Mess-iah’ for
which he is best remembered. First performed in Dublin in 1742, the Handel Commemoration at Westminster
Abbey in 1784 saw the first large-scale performance of the ‘Messiah’. On his monument, carved by Roubillac,
Handel is shown holding the score of the ‘Messiah’.
Lord Byron (1788 – 1824) is probably best known for his poems ‘Childe Harold’ and ‘Don Juan’. Born in
London and educated at Harrow and Cam-bridge, he married Anne Milbanke in 1815. The marriage was un-
happy and they soon separated, Byron going to live abroad to escape the scandal which followed the separation.
His lifestyle con-tinued to excite disapproval and, on his death in 1824, this precluded his burial or even com-
memoration in the Abbey.
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343 – 1400) was born in London and held several court and official appointments.
Employment on state missions abroad took him to Italy, France and Flanders and these visits greatly influenced

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