The English Poetic Epitaph

Commemoration and Conflict from Jonson to Wordsworth

• Author(s): Joshua Scodel,
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Pages: 425
• ISBN_13: 9780801424823
  ISBN_10: 0801424828
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh , Literary Criticism / Poetry , Poetry / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh , Social Science / Death & Dying ,

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.