Title: Facing loss and death :
Authors: Hühn, Peter,; Goerke, Britta,; Du Plooy, Heilna,; Schenk-Haupt, Stefan,
Date: 2016
Publisher: De Gruyter,
Physical description: vi, 332 pages ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC class: P
Contents: Peter Hühn -- Mourning the death of a beloved person -- Introduction / Peter Hühn -- Ben Jonson : "on my first daughter" and "on my first son" (Peter Hühn) -- John Donne : "Since she whom i loved" and John Milton : "methought i saw my late espoused saint" (Peter Hühn) -- Lord Byron : "away, away, ye notes of woe" and "and thou art dead" (Peter Hühn) -- E.A. Poe : "Lenore" (Peter Hühn) -- Seamus Heaney : "mid-term break" (Heilna du Plooy) -- Eavan Boland : "the blossom" and "the pomegranate" (Peter Hühn) -- Summary (Peter Hühn) -- Coping with loss in love -- Introduction (Peter Hühn) -- William Shakespeare : the sonnets (Peter Hühn) -- John Donne : "valediction : forbidding mourning" (Stefan Schenk-Haupt) -- William Wordsworth : "lucy poems" (Peter Hühn) -- Emily Dickinson : "after great pain" (Heilna du Plooy) -- Thomas Hardy : "The voice" (Britta Goerke) -- Sylvia Plath : "the other" (Stefan Schenk-Haupt) -- Ted Hughes : birthday letters (Peter Hühn) -- Summary (Peter Hühn) -- Confronting one's own death -- Introduction (Peter Hühn) -- Sir Walter Raleigh : "verses made the night before he died" and chidiock tichborne : "tichborne's elegy" (Peter Hühn) -- John Donne : "what if this present were the world's last night" (Peter Hühn) -- William Cowper : "the castaway" (Britta Goerke) -- John Keats : "when i have fears that i may cease to be" and lord byron : "on this day i complete my thirty-sixth year" (Peter Hühn) -- Emily Dickinson : "because i could not stop for death" (Heilna du Plooy) -- Rupert Brooke : "the soldier" and wilfred owen : "Strange Meeting" (Peter Hühn) -- D.H. Lawrence : "bavarian gentians" (Peter Hühn) -- Summary (Peter Hühn) -- Lamenting the death of poets -- Introduction (Peter Hühn) -- Henry Howard, earl of surrey : "an excellent epitaph of Sir Thomas Wyatt" (Peter Hühn) -- Thomas Carew : "an elegie upon the death of the dean of St. Paul's, Dr John Donne" (Peter Hühn) -- Percy Bysshe Shelley : "adonais : an elegy on the death of John Keats" (Peter Hühn) -- W.H. Auden : "in memory of W.B. Yeats" (Peter Hühn) -- Seamus Heaney : "audenesque : in memory of Joseph Brodsky" (Peter Hühn) -- Summary (Peter Hühn) -- Thematizing the loss of an old order -- Introduction (Peter Hühn) -- John Donne : an anatomy of the world and William Shakespeare : the sonnets (Peter Hühn) -- William Wordsworth : "the world is too much with us" and W.B. Yeats : "high talk" (Peter Hühn) -- Shelley : "lift not the painted veil" (Peter Hühn) and "the cloud" (Britta Goerke) -- Matthew Arnold : "dover beach" and gerald manley hopkins: "no worst, there is none" (Peter Hühn) -- T.S. Eliot : the waste land (Peter Hühn) and "journey of the magi" (Britta Goerke) -- W.B. Yeats : "Lapis Lazuli" (Peter Hühn) -- Tony Harrison : "a kumquat for John Keats" (Britta Goerke) -- Summary (Peter Hühn) -- Conclusion : summary and results (Peter Hühn) --