Poets' Corner is the name traditionally given to a section of the South Transept of Westminster Abbey due to the number of poets, playwrights and writers now buried and commemorated there.

The first person to be interred there was Geoffrey Chaucer, whose burial in the abbey owed more to his position as Clerk of Works of the Palace of Westminster than to his fame as a writer. However, the erection of a magnificent tomb to Chaucer in the late sixteenth century and the nearby burial of Edmund Spenser in 1599 started a tradition that is still upheld, although the area is also houses the tombs of several Canons and Deans of the abbey.

People buried in Poets' Corner

• Geoffrey Chaucer
• Edmund Spenser
• William Camden
• Thomas Parr
• William Davenant
• Abraham Cowley
• John Dryden
• Matthew Prior
• William Congreve
• George Frederick Handel
• David Garrick
• Samuel Johnson
• Richard Brinsley Sheridan
• Thomas Campbell
• Charles Dickens
• Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• Robert Browning
• Thomas Hardy
• Rudyard Kipling
• John Masefield
• Laurence Olivier

People commemorated with memorials in Poets' Corner

• William Shakespeare
• John Milton
• William Blake
• Thomas Gray
• Samuel Butler
• Fanny Burney
• Adam Lindsay Gordon
• Jane Austen
• Robert Burns
• John Keats
• Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Lord Byron
• Walter Scott
• Charlotte Bronte
• Emily Bronte
• Anne Bronte
• Oliver Goldsmith
• John Ruskin
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Henry James
• Thomas Stearns Eliot
• Gerard Manley Hopkins
• John Betjeman