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

Poetry of Mourning: The Modern Elegy from Hardy to Heaney

Jahan Ramazani

436 pages first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction poetry challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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...

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