Prose Immortality, 1711-1819 /
Writers have always aspired to immortality, using their works to preserve their patrons, their loved ones, and themselves beyond death. For Pindar, Horace, and Shakespeare, the vehicle of such preservation was poetry. In the eighteenth century, figures such as Joseph Addison, Edward Young, Samuel Ri...
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| Language: | English |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2015
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| Series: | Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize
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