FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
POETRY
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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westminster abbey
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kent church
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chapel at windsor
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none of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -In December 1399 Chaucer was granted a lease of a tenement belonging to the Abbey. The poet died on 25 October 1400 and probably because he was an Abbey tenant and was still in royal favour, he was buried in the south transept. The area around his tomb came to be known as Poets’ Corner.
Detailed explanation-2: -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. Benedicts Chapel in the South Transept of the Abbey.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -The first poet interred in Poets’ Corner, Geoffrey Chaucer, owed his 1400 burial in the Abbey (in front of St. Benedict’s Chapel) more to his position as Clerk of Works of the Palace of Westminster than to his fame as a writer.
Detailed explanation-5: -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. )