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American elegy : the poetry of mourning from the Puritans to Whitman /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cavitch, Max
Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2007]
Subjects:
Elegiac poetry, American > History and criticism.
American poetry > History and criticism.
Mourning customs in literature.
Grief in literature.
Death in literature.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: leaving poetry behind
  • Legacy and revision in eighteenth-century Anglo-American elegy
  • Elegy and the subject of national mourning
  • Taking care of the dead: custodianship and opposition in antebellum elegy
  • Elegy's child: Waldo Emerson and the price of generation
  • Mourning of the disprized: African Americans and elegy from Wheatley to Lincoln
  • Retrievements out of the night: Whitman and the future of elegy.