Poetical dust : Poets' Corner and the making of Britain /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Prendergast, Thomas A. (Thomas Augustine)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc., 2015.
Series:Haney Foundation series.
Subjects:
Poets' Corner (Westminster Abbey) > History.
Poets' Corner (Westminster Abbey)
Literary landmarks > England > London > History.
Literature and society > Great Britain > History.
Authors and readers > Great Britain > History.
Poets, English > Tombs.
Authors, English > Tombs.
Écrivains > Résidences et lieux familiers > Angleterre > Londres > Histoire.
Littérature et société > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Écrivains et lecteurs > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Poètes anglais > Tombeaux.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Authors and readers
Authors, English > Tombs
Literary landmarks
Literature and society
England > London
Great Britain
Cultural Studies.
Literature.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
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.

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