Poetical Dust : : Poets' Corner and the Making of Britain / / Thomas A. Prendergast.
In the South Transept of Westminster Abbey in London, the bodies of more than seventy men and women, primarily writers, poets, and playwrights, are interred, with many more memorialized. From the time of the reburial of Geoffrey Chaucer in 1556, the space has become a sanctuary where some of the mos...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Haney Foundation Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 19 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: The Significance(s) of Poets’ Corner
- Chapter 1. Westminster Abbey and the Incorporation of Poets’ Corner
- Chapter 2. Melancholia, Monumental Resistance, and the Invention of Poets’ Corner
- Chapter 3. Love, Literary Publicity, and the Naming of Poets’ Corner
- Chapter 4. Absence and the Public Poetics of Regret
- Chapter 5. Poetic Exhumation and the Anxiety of Absence
- Coda
- Poets’ Corner Graveplan
- Poets’ Corner Alphabetical Burial and Monument List
- Chronological List of Stones and Monuments in the South Transept
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments