The English Poetic Epitaph: Commemoration and Conflict from Jonson to Wordsworth

Joshua Scodel

Published by Cornell University Press 1991

The English Poetic Epitaph

Commemoration and Conflict from Jonson to Wordsworth

Joshua Scodel

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501737787

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About this book

Readers interested in English literary history, cultural poetics, comparative literature, the history of attitudes toward death, and the relationship between literature and the visual arts will find The English Poetic Epitaph fascinating reading.

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Joshua Scodel is Assistant Professor of English and the Humanities at the University of Chicago.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART 1. BENJONSON AND THE EPITAPHIC TRADITION
Chapter 1. Monumental Poetics: The Epitaph and the Tomb Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Chapter 2. Much in Little: The Poetics of Brevity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	50
Chapter 3. Mourning and Praise: The Elegy and Epitaph Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	86
PART 2. CONFLICT AND COMMEMORATION IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY EPITAPH
Chapter 4. Reconceiving the Dead: Donne and Carew on Donne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
Chapter 5. Praising Honest Men: Social and Religious Tensions in the Early and Mid- Seventeenth-Century Epitaph Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	140
Chapter 6. Herrick and the Epitaph of Retreat Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
Chapter 7. The Politics of Nostalgia in the Late Seventeenth-Century Epitaph Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	202
PART 3. NEW SUBJECTS, NEW READERS: THE EIGHTEENTH- AND EARLY NINETEENTH-CENTURY EPITAPH
Chapter 8. “Your Distance Keep”: Pope’s Epitaphs upon Himself Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
Chapter 9. Grafting Fame: Pope and the Dilemmas of Epitaphic Praise Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
Chapter 10. “Kindred Spirits”: The Proper Reader in the Mid-Eighteenth- to Early Nineteenth-Century Epitaph Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	312
Chapter 11. Praising Honest Creatures: Paternalist Commemoration from the Mid Eighteenth to the Early Nineteenth Century Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	352
Chapter 12. Wordsworth and the End of the Epitaphic Tradition Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	384
Epilogue Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	408
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	415

Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 432
Illustrations
- Other: 7 halftones

eBook

Published: January 24, 2019
ISBN: 9781501737787