American elegy : the poetry of mourning from the Puritans to Whitman / / Max Cavitch.
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| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 352 p. :; ill. |
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Table of 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.