American Elegy: The Poetry of Mourning from the Puritans to WhitmanU of Minnesota Press - 352 páginas 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. Cavitch begins by considering eighteenth-century elegists such as Franklin, Bradstreet, Mather, Wheatley, Freneau, and Annis Stockton, highlighting their defiance of boundaries—between public and private, male and female, rational and sentimental—and demonstrating how closely intertwined the work of mourning and the work of nationalism were in the revolutionary era. He then turns to elegy’s adaptations during the market-driven Jacksonian age, including more obliquely elegiac poems like those of William Cullen Bryant and the popular child elegies of Emerson, Lydia Sigourney, and others. Devoting unprecedented attention to the early African-American elegy, Cavitch discusses poems written by free blacks and slaves, as well as white abolitionists, seeing in them the development of an African-American genealogical imagination. In addition to a major new reading of Whitman’s great elegy for Lincoln, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” Cavitch takes up less familiar passages from Whitman as well as Melville’s and Lazarus’s poems following Lincoln’s death. American Elegy offers critical and often poignant insights into the place of mourning in American culture. Cavitch examines literary responses to historical events—such as the American Revolution, Native American removal, African-American slavery, and the Civil War—and illuminates the states of loss, hope, desire, and love in American studies today. Max Cavitch is assistant professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. |
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... poetic genre . It figures prominently on the contemporary scene : in the I work of formalist and experimental poets and in the accumulating Introduction: Leaving Poetry Behind.
... poetic genre . It figures prominently on the contemporary scene : in the I work of formalist and experimental poets and in the accumulating Introduction: Leaving Poetry Behind.
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... poets and in the accumulating ef- fusions of Web site memorialists . It is well represented in revisionist as well ... poetic line- ages , in its framing of questions of inheritance and continuity , and in its availability for imitation ...
... poets and in the accumulating ef- fusions of Web site memorialists . It is well represented in revisionist as well ... poetic line- ages , in its framing of questions of inheritance and continuity , and in its availability for imitation ...
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... Poets " to take advantage of the instructions for producing just such an elegy , the “ receipt ” left to her “ as a ... poetic corpus of Emmeline Grangerford , Huck's periodic melancholy silences find their profusely verbal INTRODUCTION 9.
... Poets " to take advantage of the instructions for producing just such an elegy , the “ receipt ” left to her “ as a ... poetic corpus of Emmeline Grangerford , Huck's periodic melancholy silences find their profusely verbal INTRODUCTION 9.
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... poetic archive , which ranges from anonymous , highly occasional verses to well - known canonical poems by major American authors - poems , like William Cullen Bryant's " Thanatopsis " and Ralph Waldo Emerson's “ Threno- dy , ” that ...
... poetic archive , which ranges from anonymous , highly occasional verses to well - known canonical poems by major American authors - poems , like William Cullen Bryant's " Thanatopsis " and Ralph Waldo Emerson's “ Threno- dy , ” that ...
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... poet and as a dispersive force struggling against the normativistic formal arrangements of nineteenth - century American poetry . Yet it is ironic that the prizing of “ Lilacs ” in the absence of a full interpretive tradition also has ...
... poet and as a dispersive force struggling against the normativistic formal arrangements of nineteenth - century American poetry . Yet it is ironic that the prizing of “ Lilacs ” in the absence of a full interpretive tradition also has ...
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1 Legacy and Revision in EighteenthCentury AngloAmerican Elegy | 33 |
2 Elegy and the Subject of National Mourning | 80 |
Custodianship and Opposition in Antebellum Elegy | 108 |
Waldo Emerson and the Price of Generation | 143 |
African Americans and Elegy from Wheatley to Lincoln | 180 |
Whitman and the Future of Elegy | 233 |
Objects | 286 |
Notes | 295 |
Index | 335 |
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American Elegy: The Poetry of Mourning from the Puritans to Whitman Max Cavitch Prévia não disponível - 2007 |
American Elegy: The Poetry of Mourning from the Puritans to Whitman Max Cavitch Prévia não disponível - 2007 |
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Misery's Mathematics: Mourning, Compensation, and Reality in Antebellum ... Peter Balaam Prévia não disponível - 2009 |