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Poetry of Mourning : The Modern Elegy from Hardy to Heaney
Poetry of Mourning The Modern Elegy from Hardy to Heaney
Author: Jahan Ramazani
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, ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780226703404
ISBN-10: 0226703401
Publication Date: 5/28/1994
Pages: 436
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Paperback
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