“The Philosophy of Tears”: Sense(s) and sensibility in some graveyard poems
This essay revisits the involved relationship between the senses, sense and sensibility in four eighteenth-century poems customarily assembled under the term “graveyard poetry” while foregrounding the emotional and material marker, the tear, and its presence (or absence) in the poems. The poems in q...
Main Author: | John Baker |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Institut du Monde Anglophone
2016-12-01
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Series: | Etudes Epistémè |
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Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/episteme/1323 |
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