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American Elegy: The Poetry of Mourning from the Puritans to Whitman
Max Cavitch
American Elegy: The Poetry of Mourning from the Puritans to Whitman
Max Cavitch
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,
336 pages, 11 halftones
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | January 3, 2007 |
ISBN13 | 9780816648931 |
Publishers | University of Minnesota Press |
Pages | 336 |
Dimensions | 227 × 151 × 22 mm · 488 g |
Language | English |