2021年2月23日 星期二

tomb, grave, graverobber, sepulchral memorial, Monumental brass, bodysnatcher. disquieting clues in odes

Whose grave hardly has brass on it.

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Monumental brass - Wikipedia
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A monumental brass is a type of engraved sepulchral memorial which in the 13th century began to partially take the place of three-dimensional ... 1401), and his wife Margaret, which formerly covered the tomb in St Mary's church, Warwick, is a striking example. One of the best specimens of plate armour is that of Sir Robert ...


The English poet originally trained in medicine, where he would have encountered bodysnatchers. Kelly Grovier reveals disquieting clues in odes written 200 years ago.

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Did the English Romantic poet John Keats steal bodies from graves? A closer look at some of the 19th-Century writer’s most revered works, including his famous odes composed 200 years ago in the spring and summer of 1819, reveals an unsettling preoccupation with the feel of cemetery soil and the merging of self with cremated remains – a hands-on obsessiveness that goes beyond an anxious awareness of one’s own mortality. It is almost as if the poet is cryptically confessing to something dark, dangerous, and deeply disquieting.






tomb is a structure above ground, and a grave is below ground. The body would be placed in a coffin or casket and then put into a tomb or grave. ... Any hole in the ground can be a grave. A tomb is a structure which can be above ground or below it (the original word suggests that it's visible and above ground).3 日前

graverobber (plural graverobbers)

  1. One who robs graves or tombs in order to sell the contents for profit.

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