Poetry of Mourning: The Modern Elegy from Hardy to Heaney

by Jahan Ramazani and Ramazani

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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.

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Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0226703401

ISBN13:9780226703404

Release Date:May 1994

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:436 Pages

Weight:1.36 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

Classics Criticism & Theory English Literature Europe History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Literature & Fiction Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Poetry Wales

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