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The funds are for a brief period of study at the Newberry library in the academic year 2019/2020, where Dr. Brazeau will be looking through archival holdings at the Newberry for rare editions of lagrime and weeping poetry. He will be working with a colleague from Northwestern University (Dr. Anne Boemler) on a co-authored project entitled 鈥淭ears in Heaven.鈥�

This article will explore the genre of weeping and lagrime poetry between Italy and England in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. These poems were a strange mix of lyric and narrative, frequently focusing on figures such as Saint Peter or Mary Magdalene. As such, they provide engaging descriptions of inner monologue and emotions, opening a unique and rare window onto interior devotional experience in the period. Moreover, they were often marketed as a type of 鈥渋nteractive鈥� poem, whereby the reader could read (and weep) along with the protagonist. This research will also inform the development of a future interdisciplinary module on the problem of Death, Dying, and Mourning that Dr. Brazeau is currently in the process of developing.