: the poetry of mourning from the Puritans to Whitman
\ Max Cavitch.
Minneapolis
: University of Minnesota Press
, 2007.
viii, 352 p.
:ill.
;23 cm.
Index
Bibliography
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.