Poetical Dust : Poets' Corner and the Making of Britain.
Prendergast, Thomas A.
Poetical Dust : Poets' Corner and the Making of Britain. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (252 pages) - Haney Foundation Series . - Haney Foundation Series .
Cover -- Contents -- 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 -- Poets' Corner Graveplan -- Poets' Corner Alphabetical Burial and Monument List -- Chronological List of Stones and Monuments in the South Transept -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Acknowledgments.
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.
9780812291902
Poets' Corner (Westminster Abbey)-History.
Literary landmarks-England-London-History.
Literature and society-Great Britain-History.
Authors and readers-Great Britain-History.
Poets, English-Tombs.
Authors, English-Tombs.
Electronic books.
PR110.L6P74 2015
820.9/9421
Poetical Dust : Poets' Corner and the Making of Britain. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (252 pages) - Haney Foundation Series . - Haney Foundation Series .
Cover -- Contents -- 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 -- Poets' Corner Graveplan -- Poets' Corner Alphabetical Burial and Monument List -- Chronological List of Stones and Monuments in the South Transept -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Acknowledgments.
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.
9780812291902
Poets' Corner (Westminster Abbey)-History.
Literary landmarks-England-London-History.
Literature and society-Great Britain-History.
Authors and readers-Great Britain-History.
Poets, English-Tombs.
Authors, English-Tombs.
Electronic books.
PR110.L6P74 2015
820.9/9421