LEADER 04327nam 2200721 450 001 9910460770303321 005 20210506194126.0 010 $a0-8122-9190-5 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812291902 035 $a(CKB)3710000000529228 035 $a(EBL)4321854 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001572389 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16221549 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001572389 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14214131 035 $a(PQKB)11678593 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4321854 035 $a(OCoLC)930027576 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse46658 035 $a(DE-B1597)452775 035 $a(OCoLC)952798383 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812291902 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4321854 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11149342 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL853065 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000529228 100 $a20160210h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPoetical dust $ePoets' Corner and the making of Britain /$fThomas A. Prendergast 210 1$aPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (252 p.) 225 1 $aHaney Foundation Series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8122-4750-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tIntroduction: The Significance(s) of Poets' Corner --$tChapter 1. Westminster Abbey and the Incorporation of Poets' Corner --$tChapter 2. Melancholia, Monumental Resistance, and the Invention of Poets' Corner --$tChapter 3. Love, Literary Publicity, and the Naming of Poets' Corner --$tChapter 4. Absence and the Public Poetics of Regret --$tChapter 5. Poetic Exhumation and the Anxiety of Absence --$tCoda --$tPoets' Corner Graveplan --$tPoets' Corner Alphabetical Burial and Monument List --$tChronological List of Stones and Monuments in the South Transept --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aIn the South Transept of Westminster Abbey in London, the bodies of more than seventy men and women, primarily writers, poets, and playwrights, are interred, with many more memorialized. From the time of the reburial of Geoffrey Chaucer in 1556, the space has become a sanctuary where some of the most revered figures of English letters are celebrated and remembered. Poets' Corner is now an attraction visited by thousands of tourists each year, but for much of its history it was also the staging ground for an ongoing debate on the nature of British cultural identity and the place of poetry in the larger political landscape. Thomas Prendergast's Poetical Dust offers a provocative, far-reaching, and witty analysis of Poets' Corner. Covering nearly a thousand years of political and literary history, the book examines the chaotic, sometimes fitful process through which Britain has consecrated its poetry and poets. Whether exploring the several burials of Chaucer, the politicking of Alexander Pope, or the absence of William Shakespeare, Prendergast asks us to consider how these relics attest to the vexed, melancholy ties between the literary corpse and corpus. His thoughtful, sophisticated discussion reveals Poets' Corner to be not simply a centuries-old destination for pilgrims and tourists alike but a monument to literary fame and the inevitable decay of the bodies it has both rejected and celebrated. 410 0$aHaney Foundation series. 606 $aLiterary landmarks$zEngland$zLondon$xHistory 606 $aLiterature and society$zGreat Britain$xHistory 606 $aAuthors and readers$zGreat Britain$xHistory 606 $aPoets, English$xTombs 606 $aAuthors, English$xTombs 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aLiterary landmarks$xHistory. 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory. 615 0$aAuthors and readers$xHistory. 615 0$aPoets, English$xTombs. 615 0$aAuthors, English$xTombs. 676 $a820.9/9421 700 $aPrendergast$b Thomas A$g(Thomas Augustine),$0850118 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910460770303321 996 $aPoetical dust$92487469 997 $aUNINA