Poetical remains : poets' graves, bodies, and books in the nineteenth century / Samantha Matthews.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Matthews, Samantha.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--19th century--History and criticism.

English poetry.

Death in literature.

Authors and readers--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Authors and readers.

Poets, English.

Death.

Tombs.

Great Britain.

History.

Poets, English--19th century--Tombs.

Poets, English--19th century--Death.

Human body in literature.

Cemeteries in literature.

Poets in literature.

Dead in literature.

Physical Description:

x, 310 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

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In 1862 Dante Gabriel Rossetti buried his unpublished poems in his dead wife's grave; in 1869 he dug them up and published them.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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [285]-301) and index.

ISBN:

019925463X

OCLC:

55970074