Where to read this sonnet: Poetry Foundation. A Sotheby's employee handles a copy of William Shakespeare's First Folio, the most important book in ... [+] English Literature. The book is estimated ...

The poet Sir William Davenant (or D'Avenant) is buried in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey. He was buried in the grave from which his Roundhead rival Thomas May had been ejected at the Restoration.

A white marble life size figure of poet William Wordsworth is now placed next to Shakespeare's memorial and below the bust of Samuel Taylor Coleridge in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey. The figure is ...

and thence via the experimental writer William Burroughs who intro­duced Blake to Allen Ginsberg (the latter, at the age of 22, was mas­tur­bating while reading Blake’s poetry when he ...