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Poetical Remains - Poets' Graves, Bodies, and Books in the Nineteenth Century (Hardcover, New)
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Poetical Remains - Poets' Graves, Bodies, and Books in the Nineteenth Century (Hardcover, New)
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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 cultural study, which concentrates on poets and poetry
from the Romantic to late Victorian period. Poetical Remains deals
with issues such as the place of burial, the kind of monument
deemed appropriate, the poet's 'last words' and last poems, the
creation of memorial volumes, and the commercial boost given to a
poet's reputation by 'celebrity death', focussing in each case on
the powerful, complex, often unstated but ever-present connections
between the poet's body and their poetic 'corpus'. As well as the
works of the poets themselves, Matthews draws on contemporary
biography and memoirs, family correspondence, newspaper reports,
and tribute verse among other texts, and places the literature of
poetic death in its social, material, and affective context: the
conflict between the idealized 'country churchyard' and the secular
urban cemetery, the ideal of private, familial burial as against
the pressure for public ceremony, the recuperation of
death-in-exile as an extension of national pride, transactions
between spiritual and material, poetic and pragmatic, in a
secularizing age. Some of the most poignant and darkly comic
moments in nineteenth-century literary history arose around the
deathbeds of poets and the events which followed their deaths. What
happened to Shelley's heart, and to Thomas Hood's monument; the
different fates which dictated that the first Poet Laureate
appointed by Queen Victoria, Wordsworth, was buried in his family
plot in Grasmere, while her second, Tennyson, was wrested from his
family's grasp and interred in Westminster Abbey - these are some
of the stories which Matthews tells, and which are bound up in a
sustained and powerful argument about the way in which our culture
deals with artists and their work on the boundary between life and
death.
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