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

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2007.Description: viii, 352 p. : ill. ; 23 cmSubject(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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E-Book Taylor's Library-TU 811.009/3548 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) e-book

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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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.