Editing Poets' Corner (section)

==Elsewhere in the Abbey==
Poets and writers commemorated elsewhere in Westminster Abbey, but not in Poets' Corner proper.<ref>''Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey'' (James Wilkinson, 2007), inside back page</ref><ref>''Treasures of Westminster Abbey'' (Tony Trowles, 2008)</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center"
|-
! class="unsortable"| Image
! Name
! Born
! Died
! Age at death
! Year<br>commemorated
! class="unsortable"| Details of<br>memorial
! class="unsortable"| Notes on<br>artistic career
|-
| [[File:Robert Ayton memorial, Westminster Abbey 02.jpg|100px]]
| [[Robert Aytoun|Robert Ayton]]
| 1570
| 1638
| 67–68
|
| Bronze bust with figures of Apollo and Athene in south anbulatory<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-commemorations/commemorations/robert-ayton|title=Robert Ayton |website=Westminster Abbey |access-date=16 September 2022}}</ref>
| Poet
|-
| [[File:Aphra Behn by Peter Lely ca. 1670.jpg|100px]]
| [[Aphra Behn]]
| 1640
| 1689
| 48
|
| Gravestone
| Author and playwright
|-
| [[File:Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton by Henry William Pickersgill.jpg|100px]]
| [[Edward Bulwer-Lytton]]
| 1803
| 1873
| 69
|
| Gravestone
| Author and poet
|-
| [[File:John Bunyan by Thomas Sadler 1684.jpg|100px]]
| [[John Bunyan]]
| 1628
| 1688
| 59
| 1912
| Memorial window
| Author
|-
| [[File:Mary Lucas.jpg|100px]]
| [[Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne]]
| 1623
| 1673
| 69–70
|
| Monument
| Author and poet
|-
| [[File:Monument to William & Margaret Cavendish, Westminster Abbey.jpg|100px]]
| [[William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne]]
| 1592
| 1676
| 84
|
| Monument
| Playwright and poet
|-
| [[File:William Congreve.jpg|100px]]
| [[William Congreve]]
| 1670
| 1729
| 58
| c.1730
| Monument
| Playwright and poet
|-
| [[File:Noel Coward Allan warren edit 1.jpg|100px]]
| [[Noël Coward]]
| 1899
| 1973
| 73
| 1984
| Floor stone
| Playwright and composer
|-
| [[File:Print William Cowper (BM 1915,0508.129).jpg|100px]]
| [[William Cowper]]
| 1731
| 1800
| 68
| 1876
| Memorial window
| Poet and hymnodist
|-
| [[File:4thEarlOfRoscommon.jpg|100px]]
| [[Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon]]
| 1637
| 1685
| 47–48
|
| Grave not marked
| Poet
|-
| [[File:Statue of Benjamin Disraeli, Westminster Abbey 02.jpg|100px]]
| [[Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield]]
| 1804
| 1881
| 76
| 1884
| Statue by [[Joseph Boehm]]
| Author and politician
|-
| [[File:George Herbert.jpg|100px]]
| [[George Herbert]]
| 1593
| 1633
| 39
| 1876
| Memorial window
| Poet and orator
|-
| [[File:Sir Robert Howard.jpg|100px]]
| [[Robert Howard (playwright)|Robert Howard]]
| 1626
| 1698
| 72
|
|
| Playwright
|-
| [[File:James Russell Lowell - 1855.jpg|100px]]
| [[James R. Lowell]]
| 1819
| 1891
| 72
|
| Tablet and window
| Poet
|-
| [[File:Anne Oldfield from NPG.jpg|100px]]
| [[Anne Oldfield]]
| 1683
| 1730
| 47
|
| Gravestone
| Actress
|-
| [[File:Henry Spelman2.jpg|100px]]
| [[Henry Spelman]]
| c.1564
| 1641
| 76–77
|
| Gravestone
| Antiquarian
|-
| [[File:Arthur Penrhyn Stanley by Lowes Cato Dickinson.jpg|100px]]
| [[Arthur P. Stanley]]
| 1815
| 1881
| 65
| 1884
| Tomb and effigy
| Author
|-
| [[File:Sybil Thorndike.jpg|100px]]
| [[Sybil Thorndike]]
| 1882
| 1976
| 93
|
| Gravestone
| Actress
|-
| [[File:Vaughan-Williams-by-Rothenstein.jpg|100px]]
| [[Ralph Vaughan Williams]]
| 1872
| 1958
| 86
| 1958
| Floor stone
| Composer
|-
| [[File:Isaac Watts from NPG.jpg|100px]]
| [[Isaac Watts]]
| 1674
| 1748
| 74
| 1779
| Monument
| Hymnodist
|-
| [[File:P.G. Wodehouse, 1930.jpg|100px]]
|[[P. G. Wodehouse]]
|1881
|1975
|93
|2019
|Stone plaque designed by Stephen Raw and carved by Annet Stirling, unveiled in the south choir aisle in 2019 <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ft.com/content/3280beb6-db02-11e9-8f9b-77216ebe1f17 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221211/https://www.ft.com/content/3280beb6-db02-11e9-8f9b-77216ebe1f17 |archive-date=11 December 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=PG Wodehouse commemorated with Westminster Abbey plaque |website= Financial Times |date= 20 September 2019 |access-date=22 September 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-commemorations/commemorations/pgwodehouse|title=P.G Wodehouse |website=Westminster Abbey |access-date= 14 September 2022}}</ref>
|Humourist, novelist, lyricist, playwright
|}