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

The English Poetic Epitaph: Commemoration and Conflict from Jonson to Wordsworth
ISBN-10
0801424828
ISBN-13
9780801424823
Category
Death in literature
Pages
425
Language
English
Published
1991
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Author
Joshua Scodel

Description

In the first major study of the genre, Joshua Scodel shows how English poets have used the poetic epitaph to express their views concerning the power and limitations of poetry as a response to human mortality.

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