AGES ERA PERIOD
THE RENAISSANCE
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Chaucer’s corner
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poet’s corner
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legend’s corner
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none of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Chaucer was a high public official and a resident on the Abbey grounds when he died. So he was buried there not because he was a poet, but because he was an important church administrator. Two hundred years later, Edmund Spenser requested burial along side Chaucer. His request was honored, and a tradition was begun.
Detailed explanation-2: -Poets’ Corner is the burial site for a number of the London playwrights. Ben Jonson, Francis Beaumont, William Davenant and Michael Drayton are all buried in the Abbey, as are poets Geoffrey Chaucer and Edmund Spenser.
Detailed explanation-3: -Geoffrey Chaucer is buried in ‘Poets’ Corner’, Westminster Abbey, London, England. He was the first poet to be buried in the Abbey. However, this was because he had been Clerk of Works to the Palace of Westminster and not because he had written The Canterbury Tales. Chaucer was buried at the entrance to St.
Detailed explanation-4: -Edmund Spenser is buried in ‘Poets’ Corner’, Westminster Abbey, London, England next to Chaucer. (The monument to Spenser was made in 1778 and is a replica of the original one erected by Ann Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery in 1620. )