03377nam 2200733 a 450 991045107990332120200520144314.01-280-84574-00-19-151448-9(CKB)1000000000409816(EBL)422660(OCoLC)476258692(SSID)ssj0000385072(PQKBManifestationID)11321534(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000385072(PQKBWorkID)10373844(PQKB)10392644(MiAaPQ)EBC422660(Au-PeEL)EBL422660(CaPaEBR)ebr10266499(CaONFJC)MIL84574(EXLCZ)99100000000040981620040802d2004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPoetical remains[electronic resource] poets' graves, bodies, and books in the nineteenth century /Samantha MatthewsOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20041 online resource (321 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-925463-X Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-301) and index.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Alfred Lord Tennyson and the Red, White, and Blue; Bibliography; IndexIn 1862 Dante Gabriel Rossetti buried his unpublished poems in his dead wife's grave; in 1869 he dug them up and published them.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 culturaEnglish poetry19th centuryHistory and criticismDeath in literatureAuthors and readersGreat BritainHistory19th centuryPoets, English19th centuryTombsPoets, English19th centuryDeathHuman body in literatureCemeteries in literaturePoets in literatureDead in literatureElectronic books.English poetryHistory and criticism.Death in literature.Authors and readersHistoryPoets, EnglishTombs.Poets, EnglishDeath.Human body in literature.Cemeteries in literature.Poets in literature.Dead in literature.821/.8093548Matthews Samantha862055MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451079903321Poetical remains1924306UNINA