TY  - BOOK
AU  - Daniel Möller
PY  - 2016
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783653053166
TI  - Dumb Beasts in Hallowed Tombs
T2  - Swedish Funerary Poetry for Animals 1670–1760
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-653-05316-6
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1067597
N2  - 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.
KW  - animal epitaph, court poetry, occasional poetry, erotic poetry, animal studies
LA  - English
ER  -