Literary Site Detail:
Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine
| General Information: | |
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| Type: | Literary Site |
| Name: | Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine |
| Address: |
1047 Amsterdam Avenue New York NY 10025 |
| County/Region: | New York (Manhattan) |
| Description: | Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine, 1047 Amsterdam Avenue and West 112th Street, the largest church in the United States, is home to the Poet's Corner, with stones dedicated to Elizabeth Bishop, Louise Bogan, Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Herman Melville, Henry David Thoreau, Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, Walt Whitman, and William Carlos Williams. Held there were services for Poets W. H. Auden, Joseph Brodsky, and Allen Ginsberg. The American Poets' Corner was created in 1984 to memorialize American writers of the highest repute, it is modeled after a similar alcove for writers at Westminster Abbey in London. |
| Phone Numbers: |
212-316-7490 |
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| Email/Website/Webmaster: |
Public Website |
| Business Hours: | [no data] |
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