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Poetical Dust - Poets' Corner and the Making of Britain (Hardcover)
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Poetical Dust - Poets' Corner and the Making of Britain (Hardcover)
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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
Poetical Dust offers a provocative, far-reaching, and witty
analysis of Poets' Corner. Covering nearly a thousand years of
political and literary history, the book examines the chaotic,
sometimes fitful process through which Britain has consecrated its
poetry and poets. Whether exploring the several burials of Chaucer,
the politicking of Alexander Pope, or the absence of William
Shakespeare, Prendergast asks us to consider how these relics
attest to the vexed, melancholy ties between the literary corpse
and corpus. His thoughtful, sophisticated discussion reveals Poets'
Corner to be not simply a centuries-old destination for pilgrims
and tourists alike but a monument to literary fame and the
inevitable decay of the bodies it has both rejected and celebrated.
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