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Literary Landmarks

The Emily Dickinson Museum

The Emily Dickinson Museum is a historic

house made up of two houses: the Dickinson Homestead and the Evergreens. The Dickinson Homestead is
the place where Emily Dickinson was born, one of America's greatest poets. It is a three-acre landscape in
the center of Amherst, MA, preserving the homes and landscape of Emily Dickinson. This is where she
composed nearly all of her 1,800 poems. The Museum is dedicated to educating diverse audiences about
Emily Dickinson’s life, family, creative work, times, and enduring relevance, and to preserving and
interpreting the Homestead and The Evergreens as historical resources for the benefit of scholars and the
general public.

Poet’s Corner at Westminster Abbey

Poets' Corner is the name traditionally given to a section of the South Transept of Westminster
Abbey in London because of the high number of poets, playwrights, and writers buried and commemorated
there. Poets’ Corner is a place of pilgrimage for literature lovers. Here, over 100 poets and writers are buried
or have memorials. Many like William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters and Charles Dickens
are famous worldwide. The first poet to be buried here, in 1400, was Geoffrey Chaucer, author of ‘The
Canterbury Tales’. Famous names to be found here include Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, Charles
Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Jane Austen, the Brontes, and William Shakespeare, among many others.

Keats House

The Keat’s house is found in leafy North Hampstead, this 18th-century villa was home to romantic
poet John Keats from the years 1818 to 1820, the year before his tragic death at 25. Viewed as mere bricks
and mortar, Keats House is not a particularly distinctive example of early nineteenth century architecture.
With its wide, white-washed frontage, tall Georgian windows and its pleasant garden, it was built between
about 1814 and 1816 as a pair of separate semi-detached homes and known originally as “Wentworth
Place”. Today, Keats House is a museum dedicated to the poet and open to the public; it houses a sizeable
collection of Keats’ works and letters, alongside the books, paintings, and objects he owned, in a changing
programme of exhibitions. Though Keats only resided here for not even two years, occupying only a few
of the rooms, you find the imprint of his presence everywhere, like he is just in the house.