poets' corner

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Definition of poets' corner in English English dictionary

a part of Westminster Abbey in London where many famous English poets are buried, including Chaucer and Shakespeare

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poets corner

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

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poets' Cor·ner