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Author:

Cavitch, Max.

Title:

American elegy : the poetry of mourning from the Puritans to Whitman / Max Cavitch.

Publisher:

University of Minnesota Press,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

viii, 352 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Elegiac poetry, American--History and criticism.
American poetry--History and criticism.
Mourning customs in literature.
Grief in literature.
Death in literature.
Elegieën.
Amerikaans.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-333) and index.

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.

ISBN:

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

LCCN:

2006026217

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)