American elegy [electronic resource] : the poetry of mourning from the Puritans to Whitman / Max Cavitch.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2007.Description: viii, 352 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 811.009/3548 22
LOC classification:
  • PS309.E4 C38 2007eb
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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.
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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.

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