{"product_id":"dumb-beasts-in-hallowed-tombs","title":"Dumb Beasts in Hallowed Tombs","description":"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.","brand":"Peter Lang AG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54246598050136,"sku":"9783631659250","price":67.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9783631659250.jpg?v=1766492153","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/dumb-beasts-in-hallowed-tombs","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}