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

• 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.

Ämnesord

Mourning customs in literature.  (LCSH)

Grief in literature.  (LCSH)

Death in literature.  (LCSH)

Elegiac poetry, American  -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

American poetry  -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Elegier  -- historia (sao)

Amerikansk poesi  -- historia (sao)

Genre

Analys och tolkning  (saogf)

Klassifikation

PS309.E4 (LCC)

811.0093548 (DDC)