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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451079903321

Autore

Matthews Samantha

Titolo

Poetical remains [[electronic resource] ] : poets' graves, bodies, and books in the nineteenth century / / Samantha Matthews

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2004

ISBN

1-280-84574-0

0-19-151448-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 p.)

Disciplina

821/.8093548

Soggetti

English poetry - 19th century - History and criticism

Death in literature

Authors and readers - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Poets, English - 19th century - Tombs

Poets, English - 19th century - Death

Human body in literature

Cemeteries in literature

Poets in literature

Dead in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-301) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Reading the Poet's Grave with Rossetti; 2. 'Nothing but Dust': Resurrecting Burns; 3. 'The Grave of a Poetess'; 4. Bringing Home Keats and Shelley; 5. Wordsworth in 'The Churchyard among the Mountains'; 6. Thomas Hood in the Cemetery; 7. Poets' Corner, Browning, and the Hero as Poet; 8. 'The Last Chapter': Alfred Lord Tennyson and the Red, White, and Blue; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In 1862 Dante Gabriel Rossetti buried his unpublished poems in his dead wife's grave; in 1869 he dug them up and published them.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 and Victorian poets, and the 'last words', books,



relics, memorials, and objects that survived them. - ;What happens to poets' genius when they die? The peculiar affinity which was felt to exist between their physical and literary 'remains' - their bodies and books - is the subject of this original cultura