poets

Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey will be used for Covid vaccinations

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It’s the final resting place of some of Britain’s greatest writers, including Charles Dickens, Jane Austen and Lord Tennyson. But from tomorrow, Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey will be more than just a monument to literature when it is converted to a Covid vaccination centre. As the mammoth roll-out continues to deliver on its great … Read more

When Coleridge found Wordsworth in bed with the love of his life the poets fell out bitterly

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BOOK OF THE WEEK RADICAL WORDSWORTH     by Jonathan Bate (William Collins, £25, 608 pp) The poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge spent Christmas Day 1806 with his close friend William Wordsworth, together with Wordsworth’s wife Mary, her sister Sara Hutchinson and Wordsworth’s own sister, Dorothy. Two days later, Coleridge bolted from the house. Taking refuge in the … Read more