Poetical Dust: Poets' Corner and the Making of Britain.
- Author / Editor
- Prendergast, Thomas A.
Poetical Dust: Poets' Corner and the Making of Britain.
- Published
- Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015.
- Physical Description
- xii, 235 pp.
- Description
- Studies the significance of "Poets' Corner" in Westminster Abbey as both a physical and a metaphorical literary space. Presents the history of Chaucer's importance as the "founding corpse of Poets' Corner" in discussion of how "political, moral, and gendered concerns" determined who would be buried in the Corner.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Life
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion