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436 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780226703404
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 28 May 1994
Description
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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436 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780226703404
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 28 May 1994
Description
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...