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

Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 352 pages) : illustrations 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 Summary American Elegy reconnects the study of early American poetry to the broadest currents of literary and cultural criticism. Max Cavitch begins by considering eighteenth-century elegists such as Franklin and Bradstreet. He then turns to elegy's adaptations during the Jacksonian age. Devoting unprecedented attention to the early African-American elegy, Cavitch sees in the poems the development of an African-American genealogical imagination Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-333) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Elegiac poetry, American -- History and criticism American poetry -- History and criticism Mourning customs in literature. Grief in literature. Death in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry. American poetry Death in literature Elegiac poetry, American Grief in literature Mourning customs in literature Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book LC no. 2006026217 ISBN 9780816698851 0816698856

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