英语词汇poet-s corner的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Poet’s Corner. Part of the south transept of Westminster Abbey, where many great authors are buried, the Poet’s Cor- ner was so named by Oliver Goldsmith, later buried there himself; it had been called “the poetical Quarter” before then. In the corner are, among others, the tombs of or monuments to Chaucer, Spenser, Ben Jonson, Shakespeare, Samuel Butler, Drayton, Milton, Davenant, Cowley, Prior, Gay, Addison, Thomson, Goldsmith, Dryden, Dr. Johnson, Sheridan, Burns, Southey, Coleridge, Campbell, Macaulay, Longfellow, Dick- ens, Thackeray, Tennyson, Browning, and Hardy. In the case of Hardy, his heart is buried in his native Dorset. One of the oddest stories about the Poet’s Corner concerns Thackeray’s bust there. The novelist’s daughter had always “deplored the length of the whiskers on each side of the face of her father’s bust,” believing that the Italian sculptor Marachetti had made them far too long. Finally, as an old woman, she managed to persuade officials to let another sculptor move the bust into a secluded alcove and chip away at the sideburns until they were the right length. This accomplished, an appropriately bewhiskered Thackeray was restored to his proper niche in the nave.

词汇	poet-s corner
词源	Poet’s Corner. Part of the south transept of Westminster Abbey, where many great authors are buried, the Poet’s Cor- ner was so named by Oliver Goldsmith, later buried there himself; it had been called “the poetical Quarter” before then. In the corner are, among others, the tombs of or monuments to Chaucer, Spenser, Ben Jonson, Shakespeare, Samuel Butler, Drayton, Milton, Davenant, Cowley, Prior, Gay, Addison, Thomson, Goldsmith, Dryden, Dr. Johnson, Sheridan, Burns, Southey, Coleridge, Campbell, Macaulay, Longfellow, Dick- ens, Thackeray, Tennyson, Browning, and Hardy. In the case of Hardy, his heart is buried in his native Dorset. One of the oddest stories about the Poet’s Corner concerns Thackeray’s bust there. The novelist’s daughter had always “deplored the length of the whiskers on each side of the face of her father’s bust,” believing that the Italian sculptor Marachetti had made them far too long. Finally, as an old woman, she managed to persuade officials to let another sculptor move the bust into a secluded alcove and chip away at the sideburns until they were the right length. This accomplished, an appropriately bewhiskered Thackeray was restored to his proper niche in the nave.
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