{"product_id":"poetical-dust-9780812247503","title":"Poetical Dust","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThomas Prendergast's Poetical Dust offers a provocative and far-reaching 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Prendergast's book evokes a cultural marketplace bustling with competing voices and stories, where poets (in their afterlives) struggle to be heard above the noise of diverse meaning-mongers and lobbyists.\" * \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003ePoetical Dust\u003c\/i\u003e provides a bold and eye-opening history of Westminster Abbey's Poets' Corner. Beginning with the deaths of Edward the Confessor and Thomas Becket, moving through Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Pope, and arriving in the present day, Thomas Prendergast examines how this revered architectural space has been critical to the formation of a British literary canon and, beyond that, British national identity.\" * David Haven Blake, author of \u003ci\u003eWalt Whitman and the Culture of American Celebrity\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Westminster Abbey and the Incorporation of Poets' Corner\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Melancholia, Monumental Resistance, and the Invention of Poets' Corner\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Love, Literary Publicity, and the Naming of Poets' Corner\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Absence and the Public Poetics of Regret\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Poetic Exhumation and the Anxiety of Absence\u003cbr\u003e Coda. Necromancy and the American Poets' Corner\u003cbr\u003e Poets' Corner Graveplan\u003cbr\u003e Poets' Corner Alphabetical Burial and Monument List\u003cbr\u003e Chronological List of Stones and Monuments in the South Transept\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405726327127,"sku":"9780812247503","price":49.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812247503.jpg?v=1730493407","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/poetical-dust-9780812247503","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}