Poetical Dust
Poets' Corner and the Making of Britain
In the South Transept of Westminster Abbey in London, the bodies of more than seventy men and women, primarily writers, poets, and playwrights, are interred, with many more memorialized. From the time of the reburial of Geoffrey Chaucer in 1556, the space has become a sanctuary where some of the most revered figures of English letters are celebrated and remembered. Poets' Corner is now an attraction visited by thousands of tourists each year, but for much of its history it was also the staging ground for an ongoing debate on the nature of British cultural identity and the place of poetry in the larger political landscape.Thomas Prendergast's…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8122-9190-2
- EAN: 9780812291902
- Produktnummer: 19562486
- Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 4'527 KB
- Abbildungen: 19 illus.
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By Thomas A. Prendergast
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