02005cam a2200409 a 4500 14487263 20141013152855.0 060808s2007 mnua b s001 0 eng 2006026217 GBA680296 bnb 013557591 Uk 0816648921 (alk. paper) 9780816648924 (alk. paper) 081664893X (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780816648931 (pbk. : alk. paper) (OCoLC)ocm70883192 (OCoLC)70883192 DLC DLC BAKER UKM C#P YDXCP IXA BTCTA DLC n-us--- PS309.E4 C38 2007 811.009/3548 22 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. Elegiac poetry, American History and criticism. American poetry History and criticism. Mourning customs in literature. Grief in literature. Death in literature. Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0618/2006026217.html Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0667/2006026217-d.html lcc BK 25237 25237 0 0 lcc 0 0 PUEA PUEA GEN 2014-10-13 Books for Africa 250.00 0 PS309.E4 C38 2007 2014-3871 2015-08-01 00:00:00 1 2014-10-13 BK