: the poetry of mourning from the Puritans to Whitman
First Statement of Responsibility
\ Max Cavitch.
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Minneapolis
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: University of Minnesota Press
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
, 2007.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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viii, 352 p.
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:ill.
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;23 cm.
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Index
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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.