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hen it comes to literary greats, let’s not mess about - no one has more than England.

As indication, Poet’s corner in Westminster Abbey houses the graves of Geoffrey Chaucer , Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, and Rudyard Kipling , among countless others.

To that canon you can add poets like Keats, Shelley, Wordsworth , Pope, Milton and Coleridge, famous female authors Jane Austen , the Brontë Sisters, Henry James, Agatha Christie and JK Rowling .

It’s no wonder then that England celebrates this fantastic history and honours these greats of the English language.

With the English cultural and geographical landscape often a key part of these writers’ works, it’s also possible to go and see for yourself what inspired these wordsmiths.