| Description |
1 online resource (x, 310 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-301) and index. |
| Contents |
Reading the poet's grave with Rossetti -- 'Nothing but dust': resurrecting Burns -- 'The grave of a poetess' -- Bringing home Keats and Shelley -- Wordsworth in 'The churchyard among the mountains' -- Thomas Hood in the cemetery -- Poets' Corner, Browning, and the hero as poet -- 'The last chapter': Alfred Lord Tennyson and the red, white, and blue. |
| Summary |
In 1862 Dante Gabriel Rossetti buried his unpublished poems in his dead wife's grave; in 1869 he dug them up and published them. This innovative cultural history, drawing on emerging disciplines of book history and death studies, explores the many strange stories about the deaths of Romantic and Victorian poets, and the 'last words', books, relics, memorials, and objects that survived them. - ;What happens to poets' genius when they die? The peculiar affinity which was felt to exist between their physical and literary 'remains' - their bodies and books - is the subject of this original cultura. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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English poetry. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Death in literature.
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Death in literature. |
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Authors and readers -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Authors and readers. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
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Poets, English -- 19th century -- Tombs.
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Poets, English. |
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Tombs. |
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Poets, English -- 19th century -- Death.
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Death. |
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Human body in literature.
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Human body in literature. |
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Cemeteries in literature.
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Cemeteries in literature. |
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Poets in literature.
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Poets in literature. |
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Dead in literature.
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Dead in literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Matthews, Samantha. Poetical remains. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004 (DLC) 2004301647 |
| ISBN |
9780191514487 (electronic book) |
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0191514489 (electronic book) |
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1280845740 |
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9781280845741 |
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019925463X (Cloth) |
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