American Elegy: The Poetry of Mourning from the Puritans to Whitman
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
American Elegy: The Poetry of Mourning from the Puritans to Whitman
By (Author) Max Cavitch
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
1st April 2007
United States
Classifications
Adult Education
Non Fiction
Literature: history and criticism
History of the Americas
811.009
Physical Properties
Paperback
336
Width 150mm, Height 229mm, Spine 20mm
Description
The most widely practiced and read form of verse in America, "elegies are poems about being left behind," writes Max Cavitch. American Elegy is the history of a diverse people's poetic experience of mourning and of mortality's profound challenge to creative living. By telling this history in political, psychological, and aesthetic terms, American Elegy powerfully reconnects the study of early American poetry to the broadest currents of literary and cultural criticism.
