There is a corner of Westminster Abbey that every British writer has dreamed about for six centuries. It is not the grandest part of the building, nor the most obviously sacred. But walk through the south transept and into the small, low-ceilinged alcove beyond it, and you will understand immediately why this place matters. The walls are thick with names. The floor is thick with them too. This is Poet’s Corner — and there is nowhere else quite like it in the world.
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