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"
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