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Poetry of Mourning: The Modern Elegy from Hardy to Heaney
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Univ of Chicago Pr
Publication date May 1, 1994
Binding Hardcover
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9780226703398
ISBN-10 0226703398
Dimensions 1.25 by 6.50 by 9.25 in.
Weight 1.70 lbs.
Availability§ Out of Print
Original list price $42.00
Other format details university press
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Called the "mother of beauty" by Wallace Stevens, death has been perhaps the favorite muse of modern poets. From Langston Hughes's lynch poems to Sylvia Plath's father elegies, modern poetry has tried to find a language of mourning in an age of mass death, religious doubt, and forgotten ritual. For this reason, Jahan Ramazani argues, the elegy, one of the most ancient of poetic genres, has remained one of the most vital to modern poets.

Through subtle readings of elegies, self-elegies, war poems, and the blues, Ramazani greatly enriches our critical understanding of a wide range of poets, including Thomas Hardy, Wilfred Owen, Wallace Stevens, Langston Hughes, W. H. Auden, Sylvia Plath, and Seamus Heaney. He also interprets the signal contributions to the American family elegy of Robert Lowell, Allen Ginsberg, Anne Sexton, John Berryman, Adrienne Rich, Michael Harper, and Amy Clampitt. Finally, he suggests analogies between the elegy and other kinds of contemporary mourning art—in particular, the AIDS Memorial Quilt and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

Grounded in genre theory and in the psychoanalysis of mourning, Ramazani's readings also draw on various historical, formal, and feminist critical approaches. This book will be of interest to anyone concerned with the psychology of mourning or the history of modern poetry.

"Consists of full, intelligent and lucid exposition and close reading. . . . Poetry of Mourning is itself a welcome contribution to modern poetry's search for a 'resonant yet credible vocabulary of grief in our time."—Times Literary Supplement


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from Univ of Chicago Pr (May 1, 1994)
9780226703398 | details & prices | 6.50 × 9.25 × 1.25 in. | 1.70 lbs | List price $42.00
About: Called the "mother of beauty" by Wallace Stevens, death has been perhaps the favorite muse of modern poets.
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from Univ of Chicago Pr (May 28, 1994)
9780226703404 | details & prices | 6.25 × 9.25 × 1.00 in. | 1.30 lbs | List price $32.00
About: Called the "mother of beauty" by Wallace Stevens, death has been perhaps the favorite muse of modern poets.

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