Epitaph

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They lived und laughed ant loved end left.

James Joyce

Finnegans Wake

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Topic

Looking back Life

Speaker

Jute

Author

James Joyce

Source

Finnegans Wake

Medium

Novel

Genre

Modernist literature

Statement Type

Epitaph

Language

English

Time

1939 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Joyce, James. Finnegans Wake. Faber and Faber, 1939.

Current Citation

Joyce, James. Finnegans Wake. Wordsworth, 2012.

The body of
B. Franklin,
Printer;
Like the cover of an old Book,
Its Contents torn out,
And stript of its lettering and gilding,
Lies here, food for worms.
But the work shall not be wholly lost:
For it will, as he believ’d, appear once more,
In a new & more perfect edition,
Corrected and amended
By the Author.

Benjamin Franklin

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Topic

Afterlife

Author

Benjamin Franklin

Source

Epitaph for Himself

Medium

Epitaph

Statement Type

Epitaph Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1728 1720s 18th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Franklin, Benjamin. Epitaph for himself. 1728.

Current Citation

Franklin, Benjamin. "Epitaph." Benjamin Franklin: Silence Dogood, The Busy-Body and Early Writings, edited by J. A. Leo Lemay. Library of America, 2005.

Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth
A youth to fortune and to fame unknown.
Fair Science frowned not on his humble birth,
And Melancholy marked him for her own.

Thomas Gray

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

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Author

Thomas Gray

Source

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Epitaph

Language

English

Time

1751 1750s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Gray, Thomas. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. London: Robert Dodsley, 1751.

Current Citation

Gray, Thomas. "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard." Elegy Written In Country Churchyard and Other Poems. Penguin Classics, 2009.

Under the wide and starry sky,
Dig the grave and let me lie.
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.
This be the verse you grave for me:
Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor, home from sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Requiem

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Author

Robert Louis Stevenson

Source

Requiem

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Epitaph

Language

English

Time

1887 1880s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Stevenson, Robert Louis. "Requiem." Underwoods. New York City: Charles Scribner's Sons/London: Chatto & Windus, 1887, I. 1.