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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Matthews, Samantha, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

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--19th century--Tombs.

Poets, English.

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

Human body in literature.

Cemeteries in literature.

Poets in literature.

Dead in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This 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:

Contents; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Reading the Poet's Grave with Rossetti; 2. 'Nothing but Dust': Resurrecting Burns; 3. 'The Grave of a Poetess'; 4. Bringing Home Keats and Shelley; 5. Wordsworth in 'The Churchyard among the Mountains'; 6. Thomas Hood in the Cemetery; 7. Poets' Corner, Browning, and the Hero as Poet; 8. 'The Last Chapter': Alfred Lord Tennyson and the Red, White, and Blue; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Formerly CIP.

Previously issued in print: 2004.

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

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

1-383-03952-6

1-280-84574-0

0-19-151448-9

OCLC:

476258692