Chapter 4. Absence and the Public Poetics of Regret

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction: The Significance(s) of Poets’ Corner 1
5. Chapter 1. Westminster Abbey and the Incorporation of Poets’ Corner 17
6. Chapter 2. Melancholia, Monumental Resistance, and the Invention of Poets’ Corner 42
7. Chapter 3. Love, Literary Publicity, and the Naming of Poets’ Corner 73
8. Chapter 4. Absence and the Public Poetics of Regret 105
9. Chapter 5. Poetic Exhumation and the Anxiety of Absence 126
10. Coda 148
11. Poets’ Corner Graveplan 159
12. Poets’ Corner Alphabetical Burial and Monument List 160
13. Chronological List of Stones and Monuments in the South Transept 165
14. Notes 189
15. Bibliography 211
16. Index 221
17. Acknowledgments 237