The English Poetic Epitaph: Commemoration and Conflict from Jonson to Wordsworth

By Joshua Scodel

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801424828
• ISBN13: 9780801424823
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: NCROL
• Length: 425 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 1.3" x 6.8"