Identifier: ArenaMagazine-Volume40 (find matches)
Title: Arena magazine - Volume 40
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: B.O. Flower (ed.)
Subjects: Progressivism -- United States liberalism reformism social reform Christian Socialism Gay 90s political commentary Benjamin Orange Flower Progressive era social gospel
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short timethe office of clerk of the works atWestminster, and it is to that fact,and also to his having breathed hislast in an old house in the monastery garden,that his interment within the Abbey is to beattributed. In the poetical quarter, wrote Addison inhis famous essay on the Abbey, *I found thatthere were poets who had no monuments, andmonuments which had no poets. Shakes-peare is an example of the last statement;Beaumont of the first—for he lies under anameless stone. But from Shakespeares timeonwards, monument or no monument, it cameto be recognized that in this south transept wasthe fitting sepulchre of the nations chief singersand if circumstances did not always allow oftheir actual burial here, it was still possible torecord their fame by storied urn or sculpturedbust. And so we have the glorious PoetsCorner of to-day. It is true there are somenames missing from the scroll of fame keptwithin this narrow space, and the absence ofseveral of those names may give the pilgrim
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HELEN KELLER. From The World I Live In. Copyright, 1908, by theCentury Company. pause,he no There is Pope, for example—why hasmemorial here? Because he desirednone. It was his wish to be buried by the sideof his mother in Twickenham Church, and hisepitaph in that building, written by himself,records that it is For one that would not beburied in Westminster Abbey. But theabsentees are not numerous, and he who iswell-read in all the verse suggested by thenames on these walls is to be envied his knowl-edge of English poetry. Thus, though there are some pages like thechapter on The Poets Corner, given tovery well-known haunts, this work for the mostpart is concerned with interesting and pic-turesque parts of England that have been toomuch neglected by travelers. One of t he chap-ters of interest to persons of widely differingtastes is on Bunhill Fields, a famous Non-conformist cemetery where lie buried JohnBunyan, Daniel Defoe, Isaac Watts, WilliamBlake, and other men eminent in the lit

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