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

By: Cavitch, Max.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2007Description: viii, 352 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.Subject(s): Elegiac poetry, American -- History and criticism | American poetry -- History and criticism | Mourning customs in literature | Grief in literature | Death in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 811.009/3548 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.