Poetical Dust: Poets' Corner and the Making of Britain

by Thomas A Prendergast

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812247507
• ISBN13: 9780812247503
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 8.9"