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Poetical remains : poets' graves, bodies, and books in the nineteenth century /

In 1862 Dante Gabriel Rossetti buried his unpublished poems in his dead wife's grave; in 1869 he dug them up and published them. This innovative cultural history, drawing on emerging disciplines of book history and death studies, explores the many strange stories about the deaths of Romantic an...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Matthews, Samantha
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Colección:OUP E-Books.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Reading the poet's grave with Rossetti
  • 'Nothing but dust': resurrecting Burns
  • 'The grave of a poetess'
  • Bringing home Keats and Shelley
  • Wordsworth in 'The churchyard among the mountains'
  • Thomas Hood in the cemetery
  • Poets' Corner, Browning, and the hero as poet
  • 'The last chapter': Alfred Lord Tennyson and the red, white, and blue.