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Cavitch, Max.

American elegy : the poetry of mourning from the Puritans to Whitman / Max Cavitch. - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2007. - viii, 352 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

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.

ISBN: 0816648921 (alk. paper) 9780816648924 (alk. paper) 081664893X (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780816648931 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2006026217

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA680296 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 013557591 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Elegiac poetry, American--History and criticism.
American poetry--History and criticism.
Mourning customs in literature.
Grief in literature.
Death in literature.

LC Class. No.: PS309.E4 / C38 2007

Dewey Class. No.: 811.009/3548