Cavitch, Max. <br/><br/>
American elegy  the poetry of mourning from the Puritans to Whitman /  [electronic resource] : 
Max Cavitch. 
 - Minneapolis :  University of Minnesota Press,  c2007. 
 - viii, 352 p. :  ill. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-333) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. <br/>Palo Alto, Calif. : <br/>ebrary, <br/>2013. <br/>Available via World Wide Web. <br/>Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 
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<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA680296  bnb 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Elegiac poetry, American--History and criticism.<br/>American poetry--History and criticism.<br/>Mourning customs in literature.<br/>Grief in literature.<br/>Death in literature.
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<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS309.E4  / C38 2007eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>811.009/3548