Poetical Dust - Poets'' Corner and the Making of Britain

Informationen zum Autor Thomas A. Prendergast Klappentext Thomas Prendergast is Professor of English at The College of Wooster and author of Chaucer's Dead Body: From Corpse to Corpus. Zusammenfassung Thomas Prendergast's Poetical Dust offers a provocative and far-reaching 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Introduction 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. Necromancy and the American Poets' Corner Poets' Corner Graveplan Poets' Corner Alphabetical Burial and Monument List Chronological List of Stones and Monuments in the South Transept Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

Product details

• Authors: Thomas A Prendergast, Thomas A. Prendergast
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2015
• EAN: 9780812247503
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-4750-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Haney Foundation Series; Haney Foundation; Haney Foundation; Haney Foundation Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies