Poetical Remains: Poets' Graves, Bodies, and Books in the Nineteenth Century

ISBN-13: 9780199254637 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 320 str.

Samantha Matthews

Opis

In 1862 Dante Gabriel Rossetti buried his unpublished poems in his dead wife's grave; in 1869 he dug them up and published them.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

Recenzje

A deft weave of close reading and cultural history that not only manages to say something fresh and original about individual poems, but also uses them as a series of lenses to refocus our assumptions... A closely argued study, carefully structured and brimming with sympathetic insights.