American elegy : the poetry of mourning from the Puritans to Whitman /

American Elegy reconnects the study of early American poetry to the broadest currents of literary and cultural criticism. Max Cavitch begins by considering eighteenth-century elegists such as Franklin and Bradstreet. He then turns to elegy's adaptations during the Jacksonian age. Devoting unpre...

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Main Author: Cavitch, Max
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2007
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