the poetry of mourning from the Puritans to Whitman Cavitch, Max. creator text bibliography mnu Minneapolis University of Minnesota Press c2007 2007 monographic eng

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viii, 352 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. 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. Max Cavitch. Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-333) and index. n-us--- Elegiac poetry, American History and criticism American poetry History and criticism Mourning customs in literature Grief in literature Death in literature PS309.E4 C38 2007 811.009/3548 0816648921 (alk. paper) 9780816648924 (alk. paper) 081664893X (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780816648931 (pbk. : alk. paper) 2006026217 http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0618/2006026217.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0667/2006026217-d.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0618/2006026217.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0667/2006026217-d.html DLC 060808 20141013152855.0 14487263