Poetical remains : poets' graves, bodies, and books in the nineteenth century

Label

Poetical remains : poets' graves, bodies, and books in the nineteenth century

Title remainder

poets' graves, bodies, and books in the nineteenth century

Statement of responsibility

Samantha Matthews

Creator

• Matthews, Samantha

Subject

• Cemeteries in literature
• Dead in literature
• Poets in literature
• Poets, English -- 19th century -- Death
• Authors and readers -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
• Poets, English -- 19th century -- Tombs
• English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism
• Human body in literature
• Death in literature

Language

eng

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In 1862 Dante Gabriel Rossetti buried his unpublished poems in his dead wife's grave; in 1869 he dug them up and published them.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

Cataloging source

MT4IT

Dewey number

821.8093548

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

PR585.D42

LC item number

M38 2004eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography