Author: Scodel, Joshua [1958 - ]
Title: The English Poetic Epitaph: Commemoration and Conflict from Jonson to Wordsworth
Description: Ithaca [NY], Cornell University Press, (1991). orig.cloth. 24x15cm, viii,425 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: Ben Jonson & the Epigraphic Tradition: Monumental Poems: The Epitaph & the Tomb; Much in Little: The Poetics of Brevity; Mourning & Praise: The Elegy & the Epitaph; Conflict & Commemoration in the 17th- Century Epitaph: Reconceiving the Dead: Donne & Carew on Donne; Praising Honest Men: Social & Religious Tensions in the Early & Mid-17th-Century Epitaph; Herrick & the Epitaph of Retreat; The Politics of Nostalgia in the Late 17th-Century Epitaph; New Subjects, New Readers: The 18th-Century & Early 19th-Century Epitaph: "Your Distance Keep": Pope's Epitaphs upon Himself; Grafting Fame: Pope & the Dilemmas of Epitaphic Praise; "Kindred Spirits": The Proper Reader in the Mid-18th & Early 19th-Century Epitaph; Praising Honest Creatures: Paternalist Commemoration from the Mid 18th to the Early 19th-Century; Wordsworth & the End of the Epitaphic Tradition.

Keywords: Literary Criticism, English Literature, Poetic Epitaph, Laudatory Poetry, Epitaphs Epitaphic, Alexander Pope, Praise Death, Funeral Funerary, Poetics History