Facing loss and death : narrative and eventfulness in lyric poetry /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Hühn, Peter, 1939- (Author), Goerke, Britta (Author), Du Plooy, Heilna (Author), Schenk-Haupt, Stefan, 1974- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Berlin ; Boston : Walter De Gruyter, [2016]
Series:	Narratologia ; 55.
Subjects:	English poetry > History and criticism > Theory, etc. Lyric poetry > History and criticism > Theory, etc. Narration (Rhetoric) > History. Loss (Psychology) in literature. Bereavement in literature.

Table of Contents:

Introduction / Peter Hühn
Mourning the death of a beloved person
Introduction / Peter Hühn
Ben Jonson : "on my first daughter" and "on my first son" (Peter Hühn)
John Donne : "Since she whom i loved" and John Milton : "methought i saw my late espoused saint" (Peter Hühn)
Lord Byron : "away, away, ye notes of woe" and "and thou art dead" (Peter Hühn)
E.A. Poe : "Lenore" (Peter Hühn)
Seamus Heaney : "mid-term break" (Heilna du Plooy)
Eavan Boland : "the blossom" and "the pomegranate" (Peter Hühn)
Summary (Peter Hühn)
Coping with loss in love
Introduction (Peter Hühn)
William Shakespeare : the sonnets (Peter Hühn)
John Donne : "valediction : forbidding mourning" (Stefan Schenk-Haupt)
William Wordsworth : "lucy poems" (Peter Hühn)
Emily Dickinson : "after great pain" (Heilna du Plooy)
Thomas Hardy : "The voice" (Britta Goerke)
Sylvia Plath : "the other" (Stefan Schenk-Haupt)
Ted Hughes : birthday letters (Peter Hühn)
Summary (Peter Hühn)
Confronting one's own death
Introduction (Peter Hühn)
Sir Walter Raleigh : "verses made the night before he died" and chidiock tichborne : "tichborne's elegy" (Peter Hühn)
John Donne : "what if this present were the world's last night" (Peter Hühn)
William Cowper : "the castaway" (Britta Goerke)
John Keats : "when i have fears that i may cease to be" and lord byron : "on this day i complete my thirty-sixth year" (Peter Hühn)
Emily Dickinson : "because i could not stop for death" (Heilna du Plooy)
Rupert Brooke : "the soldier" and wilfred owen : "Strange Meeting" (Peter Hühn)
D.H. Lawrence : "bavarian gentians" (Peter Hühn)
Summary (Peter Hühn)
Lamenting the death of poets
Introduction (Peter Hühn)
Henry Howard, earl of surrey : "an excellent epitaph of Sir Thomas Wyatt" (Peter Hühn)
Thomas Carew : "an elegie upon the death of the dean of St. Paul's, Dr John Donne" (Peter Hühn)
Percy Bysshe Shelley : "adonais : an elegy on the death of John Keats" (Peter Hühn)
W.H. Auden : "in memory of W.B. Yeats" (Peter Hühn)
Seamus Heaney : "audenesque : in memory of Joseph Brodsky" (Peter Hühn)
Summary (Peter Hühn)
Thematizing the loss of an old order
Introduction (Peter Hühn)
John Donne : an anatomy of the world and William Shakespeare : the sonnets (Peter Hühn)
William Wordsworth : "the world is too much with us" and W.B. Yeats : "high talk" (Peter Hühn)
Shelley : "lift not the painted veil" (Peter Hühn) and "the cloud" (Britta Goerke)
Matthew Arnold : "dover beach" and gerald manley hopkins: "no worst, there is none" (Peter Hühn)
T.S. Eliot : the waste land (Peter Hühn) and "journey of the magi" (Britta Goerke)
W.B. Yeats : "Lapis Lazuli" (Peter Hühn)
Tony Harrison : "a kumquat for John Keats" (Britta Goerke)
Summary (Peter Hühn)
Conclusion : summary and results (Peter Hühn)
Index (authors and titles).