American Elegy: The Poetry of Mourning from the Puritans to Whitman by Max Cavitch

American Elegy: The Poetry of Mourning from the Puritans to Whitman

Max Cavitch

336 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

reflective medium-paced

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The most widely practiced and read form of verse in America, “elegies are poems about being left behind,” writes Max Cavitch. American Elegy is the history of a diverse people’s poetic experience of mourning and of mortality’s profound challenge t...

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