Poetical Remains Poets' Graves, Bodies, and Books in the Nineteenth Century |
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| Author:
| Matthews, Samantha |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-925463-7 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2004 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $80.00 |
Book Description:
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In 1862 Dante Gabriel Rossetti buried his unpublished poems in his dead wife's grave; in 1869 he dug them up and published them.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.
In 1862 Dante Gabriel Rossetti buried his unpublished poems in his dead wife's grave; in 1869 he dug them up and published them.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.