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Poetical Dust : Poets' Corner and the Making of Britain.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Haney Foundation SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (252 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812291902
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Poetical DustDDC classification:
  • 820.9/9421
LOC classification:
  • PR110.L6P74 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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