Poetry of Mourning: The Modern Elegy from Hardy to Heaney

by Jahan Ramazani and 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, 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: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.0"