id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_74de5bitg5eunoow6so2o73h24 Samantha Matthews Thomas A. Prendergast. Poetical Dust: Poets' Corner and the Making of Britain. Haney Foundation Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. Pp. 256. $59.95 (cloth) 2017 5 .pdf application/pdf 1287 75 42 Link to publication record in Explore Bristol Research via Cambridge University Press at https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-british-studies/article/divclasstitlethomas-a-prendergast-poetical-dust-poets-corner-and-the-making-of-britain-haney-foundation-seriesphiladelphia-university-of-pennsylvania-press-2015-pp-256-5995Poetical Dust: Poets' Corner and the Making of Britain. Poets' Corner is Britain's national literary shrine located in the South Transept of period-specific studies of Poets' Corner, medievalist Prendergast offers an in-depth, The book's original thesis is that Poets' Corner is shaped as much by dead writers produced the idiosyncratic commemorative space of "Poets' Corner" (a name not coined until Corner" explores the importance of the material body to the Abbey's sacred space, and Poets' Corner" argues for Edmund Spenser as a foundational Protestant figure of Naming of Poets' Corner" shows how it became defined as the national commemorative For Prendergast, Poets' Corner is inherently paradoxical, and produces paradoxical Prendergast boldly attributes agency to Poets' Corner, demonstrates the "temporal and geographical reach" of Westminster Abbey's Poets' Corner authoritative modern account of Poets' Corner. ./cache/work_74de5bitg5eunoow6so2o73h24.pdf ./txt/work_74de5bitg5eunoow6so2o73h24.txt