American elegy [electronic resource] : the poetry of mourning from the Puritans to Whitman / Max Cavitch.
Publication details: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2007.Description: viii, 352 p. : illISBN:- 0816648921 (alk. paper)
- 081664893X (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780816648924 (alk. paper)
- 9780816648931 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 811.009/3548 22
- PS309.E4 C38 2007eb
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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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