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American Elegy: The Poetry of Mourning from the Puritans to Whitman.(Book review)
Early American Literature
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September 22, 2008|
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American Elegy: The Poetry of Mourning from the Puritans to Whitman
MAX CAVITCH
Minneapolis and London: University of Minneapolis Press, 2007
336 pp.
In his skillfully written and subtly argued American Elegy, Max Cavitch performs an important service to readers of American literature by tracing the neglected history of the elegy from the end of the Puritan period to Whitman's "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd." After a provocative theoretical introduction, Cavitch devotes six chapters to the following subjects: the political work ...
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