On Sepulchres (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Ugo Foscolo
- First Published: 1807
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry, Hymn
- Subjects: Memory, Nineteenth century, Europe or Europeans, Poetry or poets, Death or dying, Italy or Italians, Life and death, Mortality, Tombs or graves, Cemeteries
Critical Evaluation:
Written in 1806, the poem is also known in English as Of Tombs, On Tombs, or The Sepulchres. The poem is addressed to Ugo Foscolo’s friend, Ippolito Pindemonte, a wealthy, prominent traveler who translated Homer’s Odyssey (c. 800 b.c.e.). Pindemonte wrote a poem on tombs before Foscolo, but abandoned it to write an epistle responding to his friend’s superior verse. Pindemonte inspired On Sepulchres by complaining about a Napoleonic government decree regarding interments, which stated that cemeteries should be set...
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