Show poets corner memorial the poets corner in westminster abbey became a memorial to men of letters because its first tomb was that of chaucer he was buried there not because he was a poet but because he was clerk of the works at westminster his tomb stands beneath a stained glass window of scenes from the canterbury tales A small genius holds the medallion honoring the poet john gay and on it is the following inscription by gay himself life is a jest est and all things show it I 1 thought so once but now I 1 know it |