TY  - BOOK
AU  - Prendergast,Thomas A.
TI  - Poetical Dust: Poets' Corner and the Making of Britain
T2  - Haney Foundation Series
SN  - 9780812291902
AV  - PR110.L6P74 2015 
U1  - 820.9/9421 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Philadelphia
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press
KW  - Poets' Corner (Westminster Abbey)-History
KW  - Literary landmarks-England-London-History
KW  - Literature and society-Great Britain-History
KW  - Authors and readers-Great Britain-History
KW  - Poets, English-Tombs
KW  - Authors, English-Tombs
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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