Poets' Corner — Elizabeth Longford

Set in Westminster Abbey's south transept, Poets' Corner is crowded with tombs, statues, busts, plaques, tablets and floorstones dedicated to great poets and writers, artists, divines and politicians. The author introduces the poets and writers and chooses selections of poetry and prose from Dryden, Dickens, George Eliot, Byron, Burns, T.S. Eliot, Jane Austen, Shakespeare, Shelley, Rupert Brooke and the Bronte sisters and Joseph Addison. The poets of World War I have their own section to illustrate the changes and emphasis in their prose, from "glory" to "mud and blood". Men of letters honoured elsewhere in the Abbey are featured in a separate section. Elizabeth Longford is the author of "Victoria RI", "Wellington: Years of the Sword", "Wellington: Pillar of the State", "The Life of Byron", "Eminent Victorian Women", "The Queen Mother", "Elizabeth R", her autobiography, "The Pebbled Shore" and "Darling Loosy".