More Poets' Graves
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Dacre, Charlotte |
1782-1841 |
St. Mary's Church, Paddington, London, England. |
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| Dafydd ap Gwilym |
c.1340-1370 |
Strata Florida Abbey, Dyfed, Wales. (Or Talley Abbey
- contested.) |
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Daniel, Samuel |
?1562-1619 |
St. Andrew's Church, Beckington, Somerset, England. |
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Darley, George |
1795-1846 |
Kensal Green Cemetery, Kensal Green, London, England. |
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| D'Avenant, William |
1606-1668 |
Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey, London, England. |
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Davies, W. H. |
1871-1940 |
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Possibly Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, England. ('What is this life,
if full of care,/We have no time to stand and stare.') |
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Defoe, Daniel |
1660-1731 |
Bunhill Fields Burial Ground, Finsbury, London. (William
Blake is also buried here.) |
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de la Mare, Walter |
1873-1956 |
Ashes buried St. Paul's Cathedral, London, England. |
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De Quincey, Thomas |
1785-1859 |
St Cuthbert's Church, Edinburgh, Scotland. |
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Dickey, James |
1923-1997 |
All Saints Episcopal Church Cemetery, Pawleys Island, South
Carolina, USA. |
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Dobell, Sydney Thompson |
1824-1874 |
Painswick Churchyard, Gloucestershire, England. (Spasmodic
poet) |
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| Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge (Lewis Carroll) |
1832-1898 |
Guildford Cemetery, Guildford, Surrey, England. |
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Doolittle, Hilda (H. D.) |
1886-1961 |
Nisky Hill Cemetery, Bethlehem, Northampton County, Pennsylvania,
USA. |
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Dorn, Edward |
1929-1999 |
Green Mountain Cemetery, Boulder, Colorado, USA. |
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| Douglas, Gavin |
c. 1474-1522 |
Queen's Chapel, Savoy Street,
Strand, London, England. |
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Drinkwater, John |
1882-1937 |
Piddington Churchyard, Oxfordshire, England. |
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Dunbar, Paul Laurence |
1872-1906 |
Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum, Dayton, Ohio, USA. |
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Dyer, Sir Edward |
1543-1607 |
In the chancel, Southwark Cathedral, Southwark, London, England. |
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Dyer, George |
1755-1841 |
Kensal Green Cemetery, Kensal Green, London, England. (Friend of
Charles Lamb) |
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Dyer, John |
1699-1757 |
St Michael's Church,
Coningsby, Lincolnshire, England. (Laurence Eusden is also buried
here.) |
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Eberhart, Richard |
1904-2005 |
Dartmouth College Cemetery, Hanover, Grafton County, New Hampshire,
USA. |
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| Éluard, Paul |
1895-1952 |
Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, France. |
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Eusden, Laurence |
1688-1730 |
St Michael's Church, Coningsby, Lincolnshire, England. (Poet Laureate from 1718-1730) |
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Ewart, Gavin |
1916-1995 |
Cremated at Putney Vale, London. (Much missed master of light verse.) |
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Farjeon, Eleanor |
1881-1965 |
St. John's-at-Hampstead Churchyard, London, England. (Wrote the
words for Morning Has Broken) |
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Flatman, Thomas |
1637-1688 |
St Bride's Church, Fleet Street, London, England. |
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Ford, Thomas |
1580-1648 |
St. Margaret's Church, Westminster, London, England. |
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Freneau, Philip |
1752-1832 |
Union Prospect Cemetery, Matawan, Monmouth County, New Jersey, USA.
( The 'poet of the American Revolution') |
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Gibert, Sir W. S. |
1836-1911 |
St John the Evangelist Church, Great Stanmore, Greater London. |
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Gibran, Kahlil |
1883-1931 |
Mar Sarkis Monastery, Bsharri, Lebanon. |
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Graham, W. S. |
1918-1986 |
Cremated at Truro, ashes scattered on River Clyde, Scotland. (Best known for his
collection The Night-Fishing.) |
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Greville, Sir Fulke, 1st Baron Brooke |
1554-1628 |
North of the choir, St Mary's Church, Warwick, Warwickshire,
England. (Friend of Sir Philip Sidney) |
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Guest, Edgar |
1881-1959 |
Woodlawn Cemetery, Detroit, Michigan, USA. |
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Gumilev, Nickolai Stepanovich |
1886-1921 |
Unknown mass grave outside St Petersburg, Russia. (Husband of Anna
Akhmatova) |
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Häfiz, Shams ud-din Muhammad |
? - c.1390 |
Shiraz Cemetery, Iran (formerly Persia). (He was a renowned writer
of ghazels.) |
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Harte, Francis Bret |
1836-1902 |
St. Peter's Churchyard, Frimley, Surrey, England. (US poet and short
story writer.) |
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Hemans, Felicia Dorothea |
1793-1835 |
St Ann's Cemetery, Dublin, Ireland. (Wrote: 'The boy stood on the
burning deck') |
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Herbert of Cherbury, Edward, Lord |
1582-1648 |
St. Giles-in-the-Fields, St Giles High Street, London, England.
(Elder brother of George Herbert) |
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Holmes, Oliver Wendell |
1809-1894 |
Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts,
USA. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and James Russell Lowell
are also buried here.) |
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Horovitz, Frances |
1938-1983 |
Orcop Churchyard, Orcop, Herefordshire, England. |
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Hugo, Victor |
1802-1885 |
The Pantheon, Paris, France. |
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Jeffers, Robinson |
1887-1962 |
Ashes scattered at his home in Carmel, California, USA. |
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Jennings, Elizabeth |
1926-2001 |
Wolvercote Cemetery, Oxford, England. (J. R. R. Tolkien is also
buried here.) |
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Johnson, James Weldon |
1871-1938 |
Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn. New York, USA. |
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Justice, Donald |
1925-2004 |
Oakland Cemetery, Iowa City, Iowa, USA. |
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Kaya, Ahmet |
1957-2000 |
Père Lachaise Cemetery,
Paris, France. (Kurdish poet) |
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Kenyon, Jane |
1947-1995 |
Proctor Cemetery, Andover, Missouri, USA. |
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Kerouac, Jack |
1922-1969 |
Edson Cemetery, Lowell, Massachusetts, USA. |
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Key, Francis Scott |
179-1843 |
Originally St. Paul's Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland, USA but then
moved to family plot at Mount Olivet Cemetery, Frederick, Frederick
County, Maryland, USA. (He wrote The Star-Spangled Banner) |
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Keyes, Sidney |
1922-1943 |
Massicault War Cemetery, Borg-el-Amri, Tunisia. |
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Khayyám, Omar |
1048-1131 |
Nishapur, Iran. (See Edward Fitzgerald) |
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Killigrew, Anne |
1660-1685 |
Savoy Chapel, London, England. |
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Kunitz, Stanley |
1905-2006 |
Provincetown Town Cemetery, Provincetown, Massachusetts. USA. |
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