Poetry of mourning : the modern elegy from Hardy to Heaney
Jahan Ramazani (Author)
Through readings of elegies, self-elegies, war poems and the blues, this book covers a wide range of poets, including Thomas Hardy, Wilfred Owen, Wallace Stevens, Langston Hughes, W.H. Auden, Sylvia Plath and Seamus Heaney. It is grounded in genre theory and in the psychoanalysis of mourning
Elegies (Poetry)
xvi, 419 pages ; 24 cm
9780226703398, 9780226703404, 0226703398, 0226703401
28722837
The Modern Elegy. Social Mourning and Poetic Mourning. Genre, High Modernism, Psychoanalysis
1. Thomas Hardy. Elegies for an Era: "By the Century's Deathbed" Poems of 1912-13 and Other Elegies for Emma
2. Wilfred Owen
3. Wallace Stevens. Harmonium: Mockeries and Pathetic Fallacies. War Elegies. Self-Elegies: Making Alpha of Omega
4. Langston Hughes. African-American Elegy and the Blues. Blues Poems. Monologues on Mortality. Lynch Poems
5. W.H. Auden. Elegy and Imitation. Self-Elegies: "Now For Oblivion"
6. American Family Elegy I. Robert Lowell. John Berryman. Allen Ginsberg. Michael Harper
7. Sylvia Plath. "Daddy, I Have Had to Kill You" Self-Elegies: The Art and Trade of Dying
8. American Family Elegy II. Anne Sexton. Adrienne Rich. Amy Clampitt
9. Seamus Heaney