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"What happens to poets' genius when they die? Poetical Remains examines the peculiar affinity between poets' physical and literary 'remains' - their bodies and books - in the Romantic to late Victorian period. Burial-places, monuments and epitaphs, 'last words' and poems, memori…
What happens to poets' genius when they die? Poetical Remains examines the peculiar affinity between poets' physical and literary 'remains' - their bodies and books - in the Romantic to late Victorian period. Burial-places, monuments and epitaphs, 'last words' and poems, memoria…
In 1862 Dante Gabriel Rossetti buried his unpublished poems in his dead wife's grave; in 1869 he dug them up and published them. This innovative cultural history, drawing on emerging disciplines of book history and death studies, explores the many strange stories about the death…