Poetry of Mourning The Modern Elegy from Hardy to Heaney by Jahan Ramazani (Engl

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Through readings of elegies, self-elegies, war poems and the blues, this book covers a wide range of poets, including Thomas Hardy, Wilfred Owen, Wallace Stevens, Langston Hughes, W.H. Auden, Sylvia Plath and Seamus Heaney. It is grounded in genre theory and in the psychoanalysis of mourning.

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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. Through subtle readings of elegies, self-elegies, war poems, and the blues, Ramazani greatly enriches our critical understanding of a wide range of poets, including Thomas Hardy, Wilfred Owen, Wallace Stevens, Langston Hughes, W. H. Auden, Sylvia Plath, and Seamus Heaney. He also interprets the signal contributions to the American family elegy of Robert Lowell, Allen Ginsberg, Anne Sexton, John Berryman, Adrienne Rich, Michael Harper, and Amy Clampitt. Finally, he suggests analogies between the elegy and other kinds of contemporary mourning art—in particular, the AIDS Memorial Quilt and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.Grounded in genre theory and in the psychoanalysis of mourning, Ramazani's readings also draw on various historical, formal, and feminist critical approaches. This book will be of interest to anyone concerned with the psychology of mourning or the history of modern poetry."Consists of full, intelligent and lucid exposition and close reading. . . . Poetry of Mourning is itself a welcome contribution to modern poetry's search for a 'resonant yet credible vocabulary of grief in our time."—Times Literary Supplement

Author Biography

Jahan Ramazani is University Professor and the Edgar F. Shannon Professor of English at the University of Virginia. He is the author of five books, among them, A Transnational Poetics and Poetry and Its Others: News, Prayer, Song, and the Dialogue of Genres, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Details ISBN0226703401 Author Jahan Ramazani Pages 436 Language English Edition 2nd ISBN-10 0226703401 ISBN-13 9780226703404 Media Book Format Paperback Year 1994 Imprint University of Chicago Press Subtitle The Modern Elegy from Hardy to Heaney Place of Publication Chicago, IL Country of Publication United States Birth 1960 Short Title POETRY OF MOURNING 2/E Affiliation University of Virginia Illustrations black & white illustrations DOI 10.1604/9780226703404 AU Release Date 1994-05-28 NZ Release Date 1994-05-28 US Release Date 1994-05-28 UK Release Date 1994-05-28 Publisher The University of Chicago Press Publication Date 1994-05-28 DEWEY 821.0409 Audience Undergraduate We've got this

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