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Dumb Beasts in Hallowed Tombs

By Daniel Möller

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Dumb Beasts in Hallowed Tombs

By Daniel Möller

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When Kersti Berg died in 1735, she was honoured with an obituary in the form of a poetic epitaph composed by Olof von Dalin. A modern-day reader can easily get the impression that Dalin’s poem is an example of a funerary poem for a human being – one of the eighteenth century’s most common poetic genres. Kersti Berg, however, was a dog, and Dalin’s poem belongs to another genre, namely, the animal epitaph. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries this was a frequently practised form of poetry which could be used for a great many purposes, from imitations of ancient originals to masked poems composed to convey a political message or to further the writer’s career.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
371
Release Date:
2015-12-05
Publication Date:
2015-12-05
Publisher:
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
3631659253
ISBN13:
9783631659250
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
600 g
Height:
148 cm
Width:
210 cm
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