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Identifier: shakespearesengl00wint (find matches)
Title: Shakespeare's England
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Winter, William, 1836-1917
Subjects: England -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : Macmillan
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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el on only the worthiestbrows. In well-nigh five hundred years of Englishliterature there have lived only about a hundred andten poets whose names survive in any needed chronicle ;and not all of those possess life outside of the library.To muse over the literary memorials in the Abbey isalso to think upon the seeming caprice of chance withwhich the graves of the British poets have beenscattered far and wide throughout the land. Gower,Fletcher, and Massinger (to name but a few of them)rest in Southwark; Sydney and Donne in St. Paulscathedral; More (his head, that is, while his bodymoulders in the Tower chapel) at Canterbury ; Drum-mond in Lasswade church; Dorset at Withyham, inSussex; Waller at Beaconsfield; Wither, unmarked, inthe church of the Savoy; Milton in the church of theGripplegate — where his relics, it is said, were despoiled;Swift at Dublin, in St. Patricks cathedral; Young atWelwyn; Pope at Twickenham; Thomson at Rich-mond ; Gray at Stoke-Pogis ; Watts in Bunhill-Fields;
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TAe Poets Corner. CHAi. XI WESTMINSTER ABBEY 113 Collins in an obscure little church at Chichester —though his name is commemorated by a tablet in Chi-chester cathedral; Cowper in Dereham church ; Gold-smith in the garden of the Temple ; Savage at Bristol;Burns at Dumfries; Rogers at Hornsey; Crabbe atTrowbridge ; Scott in Dryburgh abbey; Coleridge atHighgate; Byron in Hucknall church, near Notting-ham ; Moore at Bromham ; Montgomery at Shefifield;Heber at Calcutta; Southey in Crossthwaite church-yard, near Keswick; Wordsworth and Hartley Cole-ridge side by side in the churchyard of Grasmere ; andClough at Florence — whose lovely words may herespeak for all of them — One port, methought, alike they sought,One purpose held, whereer they fare :O bounding breeze, O rushing seas,At last, at last, unite them there ! But it is not alone in the great Abbey that therambler in London is impressed by poetic antiquity andtouching historic association — always presuming thathe has been a

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