More Poets' Graves
Poets' Surname
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Sa'di |
? - ? 1292 |
Shiraz Cemetery, Iran (formerly Persia). (He is buried near Häfiz.) |
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Sappho |
Born c. mid 7th century BC |
Unkown. She may have died at Syracuse on Sicily or on the Island of
Lesbos in Greece. |
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Sarton, May |
1912-1995 |
Nelson Cemetery, Nelson, New Hampshire, USA. |
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Savage, Richard |
c.1697-1743 |
St. Peter's Churchyard, Bristol, England. (He died in Bristol jail.) |
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Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich von |
1759-1805 |
Ducal Crypt, Weimar, Germany. (Next to Goethe) |
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Schwartz, Delmore |
1913-1966 |
Cedar Park Cemetery, Emerson, Bergen County, New Jersey, USA. |
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Seward, Anna |
1742-1809 |
Lichfield Cathedral, England. (She was known as 'The Swan of
Lichfield') |
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| Shadwell, Thomas |
c.1642-1692 |
Chelsea Old Church, London, England. |
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Silverstein, Shel |
1930-1999 |
Westlawn Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois, USA. |
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| Sitwell, Edith |
1887-1964 |
St Mary's Churchyard (extension), Weedon Lois,
Northamptonshire, England. |
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Smart, Christopher |
1722-1771 |
Died in the King's Bench Prison for debtors, London. Buried in St.
Gregory's by St. Pauls, London (church was destroyed in 1666 fire). |
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Smith, Charlotte Turner |
1749-1806 |
St. John, Stoke, Surrey, England. |
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Smith, Stevie (Florence Margaret) |
1902-1971 |
Cremated at Torquay crematorium following a service at Holy Trinity,
Buckfastleigh. |
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Soutar, William |
1898-1943 |
Buried in the Deanfield Cemetery Perth, Scotland. |
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Spender, Stephen Harold |
1909-1995 |
Cremated at Golders Green Crematorium; location of ashes unknown. |
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Stevenson, Robert Louis |
1850-1894 |
Stevenson family home, Vailima, Island of Samoa. |
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Suckling, Sir John |
1609-1642 |
Buried in a protestant cemetery in Paris. |
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Surrey, Henry Howard, Earl of |
?1517-1547 |
Alabaster tomb inside
St.
Michael, Framlingham, Suffolk, England.
(Pioneered use of Italian sonnet.) |
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| Taliesin |
6th Century |
Possibly Tre-Taliesin, Dyfed, Wales. |
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| Tannahill, Robert |
1774-1810 |
Castlehead Churchyard, Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland.
(He drowned himself in a culvert near Paisley.) |
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| Tate, Nahum |
1652-1715 |
St. George the Martyr, Southwark, London, England. |
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Taylor, Edward |
c.1644-1729 |
Old Burying Ground, Westfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA.
(Another Puritan poet) |
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Taylor, Jane |
1783-1824 |
United Reformed Church, Ongar, Essex. (Rhymes for the Nursery) |
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Taylor, John |
1580-1653 |
St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster, London, England. (The 'Water
Poet') |
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Teasdale, Sara |
1884-1933 |
Bellefontaine Cemetery, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA. |
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Thomson, James |
1700-1748 |
Near the font, Richmond Parish Church, London, England. ('In yonder
Grave a Druid lies') |
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Thoreau, Henry David |
1817-1862 |
Sleepy Hollow
Cemetery, Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA. (Ralph
Waldo Emerson is also buried here.) |
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Toller, Ernst |
1893-1939 |
Ferncliff Mausoleum, Ardsley, Westchester County, New York, USA. (Auden wrote:
In Memory of Ernst Toller) |
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Traherne, Thomas |
1637-1674 |
St. Mary's Church, Teddington, London, England. |
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Tsvetayeva, Marina Ivanovna |
1892-1941 |
Unmarked grave, Yelabuga, nr Kaza, Russia. (She hung herself.) |
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Tusser, Thomas |
?1524-1580 |
St. Mildred Poultry, (Demolised by Victorians) London, England. |
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Valéry, Paul |
1871-1945 |
Cimètiere Marin, Sète, Herault, France. |
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Virgil (Publius Vergilius Marco) |
70-19BC |
Virgil's Tomb, (allegedly) Parco de Virgilio, Piedigrotta, nr
Naples, Italy. |
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Waley, Arthur |
1889-1966 |
Highgate Cemetery, London, England. (Translated Chinese poems and
the Tao Te Ching.) |
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| Waller, Edmund |
1606-1687 |
St. Mary's Churchyard, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire,
England. See the tomb restoration on the
church website.
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Warren, Robert Penn |
1905-1989 |
Willis Cemetery, Stratton, Windham County, Vermont, USA. |
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Warton, Thomas |
1728-1790 |
Trinity College Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. (Poet Laureate
1785-1790) |
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Watson, Thomas |
c.1556-1592 |
St. Bartholomew the Less, London, England. (His sonnets influenced
Shakespeare.) |
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Watts, Isaac |
1674-1748 |
Bunhill Fields Burial Ground, Finsbury, London, England. (Daniel
Defoe and William Blake are also buried
here.) |
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West, Jane |
1758-1852 |
St. Nicholas, Little Bowden, Leicestershire, England. |
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| Whitehead, William |
1715-1785 |
Grosvenor Chapel, Mayfair, London,
England. |
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Wigglesworth, Michael |
1631-1705 |
Bell Rock Cemetery, Malden, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA.
(Puritan poet) |
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Wither, George |
1588-1667 |
Savoy Chapel, Westminster, London. |
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Wotton, Sir Henry |
1568-1639 |
Eton College Chapel, Eton College, Berkshire, England. |
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| Wyatt, Sir Thomas |
1503-1542 |
North Transept Abbey Church, Sherborne, Dorset,
England. |
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Wycherley, William |
1641-1715 |
St. Paul's Church, Covent Garden, London, England. (Samuel Butler is
also buried here.) |
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Wyn, Hedd (Ellis Humphrey Evans) |
1887-1917 |
Artillery Wood Cemetery, nr Boezinge, Belgium. |
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