TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cavitch,Max
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - American elegy: the poetry of mourning from the Puritans to Whitman 
AV  - PS309.E4 C38 2007eb
U1  - 811.009/3548 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Minneapolis
PB  - University of Minnesota Press
KW  - Elegiac poetry, American
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - American poetry
KW  - Mourning customs in literature
KW  - Grief in literature
KW  - Death in literature
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-333) and index; 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10180205
ER  -