American elegy : the poetry of mourning from the Puritans to Whitman /
Cavitch, Max.
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press,
c2007.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-333) and index.
Introduction: leaving poetry behind -- Legacy and revision in eighteenth-century Anglo-American elegy -- Elegy and the subject of national mourning -- Taking care of the dead: custodianship and opposition in antebellum elegy -- Elegy's child: Waldo Emerson and the price of generation -- Mourning of the disprized: African Americans and elegy from Wheatley to Lincoln -- Retrievements out of the night: Whitman and the future of elegy.
Elegiac poetry, American
American poetry
Mourning customs in literature.
Grief in literature.
Death in literature.