American elegy the poetry of mourning from the Puritans to Whitman /
| Основен автор: | Cavitch, Max. |
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| Автор-организации: | ebrary, Inc. |
| Формат: | Електронен |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
c2007.
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An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
Съдържание:
- 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.