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The death then of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world, and equally is it beyond doubt that the lips best suited for such topic are those of a bereaved lover.
—Edgar Allan Poe, The Philosophy of Composition, 1846

In tonight’s talk, two famous poets, two cemeteries, and two crimes… one man buries his daughter, the other exhumes his lover. Catholicism, Protestantism, sadism, and necrophilia collide, illustrating the journey from Neoclassicism to Romanticism with a trail of dead women.

Elizabeth Harper photographs and writes about Catholic relics and other oddities for her blog, All the Saints You Should Know, a project she started to document and demystify the bones and bodies found in Catholic churches. Her work has been featured in Slate, Image Journal, America Magazine, Hazlitt, The LA Review of Books, Lapham’s Quarterly, and the catalogue for Like Life at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her essay The Cult of the Beheaded was a notable selection in Best American Essays. She has lectured at cultural institutions and universities around the world.

Image: Young et sa fille by Pierre-Auguste Vafflard, Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Angoulême