The English Poetic Epitaph : : Commemoration and Conflict from Jonson to Wordsworth / / Joshua Scodel.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Scodel, Joshua,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1991
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (432 p.) :; 7 halftones

English poets from Jonson to Wordsworth used poetic epitaphs—poems inscribed or purporting to be inscribed upon tombs—to express their views concerning the p,ower and limitations of poetry as a response to human mortality. In the first major study of the English poetic epitaph, Joshua Scodel examine...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• PART 1. BENJONSON AND THE EPITAPHIC TRADITION
• Chapter 1. Monumental Poetics: The Epitaph and the Tomb
• Chapter 2. Much in Little: The Poetics of Brevity
• Chapter 3. Mourning and Praise: The Elegy and Epitaph
• PART 2. CONFLICT AND COMMEMORATION IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY EPITAPH
• Chapter 4. Reconceiving the Dead: Donne and Carew on Donne
• Chapter 5. Praising Honest Men: Social and Religious Tensions in the Early and Mid- Seventeenth-Century Epitaph
• Chapter 6. Herrick and the Epitaph of Retreat
• Chapter 7. The Politics of Nostalgia in the Late Seventeenth-Century Epitaph
• PART 3. NEW SUBJECTS, NEW READERS: THE EIGHTEENTH- AND EARLY NINETEENTH-CENTURY EPITAPH
• Chapter 8. “Your Distance Keep”: Pope’s Epitaphs upon Himself
• Chapter 9. Grafting Fame: Pope and the Dilemmas of Epitaphic Praise
• Chapter 10. “Kindred Spirits”: The Proper Reader in the Mid-Eighteenth- to Early Nineteenth-Century Epitaph
• Chapter 11. Praising Honest Creatures: Paternalist Commemoration from the Mid Eighteenth to the Early Nineteenth Century
• Chapter 12. Wordsworth and the End of the Epitaphic Tradition
• Epilogue
• Index