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In the Catacombs - A Summer Among the Dead Poets of West Norwood Cemetery (Hardcover)
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In the Catacombs - A Summer Among the Dead Poets of West Norwood Cemetery (Hardcover)
Series: The Lost Poets of the Magnificent Seven, 1
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Opened in 1837 and inspired by the Pere Lachaise in Paris, West
Norwood became known as the Millionaire's Cemetery. But within its
opulent grounds there are twelve buried names whose currency is
language: these are the dead poets of West Norwood. In the first
instalment of a project to map the Magnificent Seven, Chris McCabe
takes us off the main track of London writing and asks why the
works of Hopkins, Tennyson and Browning are still read above those
buried in this suburban enclave of South London. Join McCabe on the
hunt for a great lost poet, as he walks the winding Gothic paths of
the Cemetery and makes an unexpected discovery underground in the
catacombs. The stories of those loved and dismissed by Charles
Dickens are carefully uncovered; those who influenced Lewis Carroll
and Winston Churchill; and those whose burial in the common ground
has not been enough to silence them. A startling and original work
of literary detection, In the Catacombs is written across a range
of forms - prose, Gothic fiction, criticism and poetry - and places
West Norwood Cemetery and its dead poets back into the foreground
of the London psyche.
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