In an award winning book of literary scholarship, Sacks explores the functions as well as forms of convention and provides an interpretive study of the elegy as a genre. "The English Elegy" is an ambitious and humane book, an eloquent work on the poetry of mourning. (Poetry)
Rezensionen / Stimmen
Sacks's careful readings, full of suggestive and learned observations ranging from the lexical to the mythic, give this booka cumulative effect that is almost as moving as the elegies themselves. Journal of Modern Literature.
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Verlagsort
Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
Produkt-Hinweis
Maße
Höhe: 229 mm
Breite: 152 mm
Dicke: 24 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-0-8018-3471-4 (9780801834714)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Peter M. Sacks is an associate professor in the Writing Seminars and the Department of English at the Johns Hopkins University. He is also the author of In These Mountains, a book of poetry.
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Interpreting the Genre: The Elegy and the Work of Mourning
Chapter 2. Spenser: The Shepheardes Calender and "Astrophel"
Chapter 3. Where Words Prevail Not: Grief, Revenge, and Language in Kyd and Shakespeare
Chapter 4. Milton: "Lycidas"
Chapter 5. Jonson, Dryden, and Grey
Chapter 6. Shelley: "Adonais"
Chapter 7. Tennyson: In Memoriam
Chapter 8. Swinburne: "Ave Atque Vale"
Chapter 9. Hardy: "A Singer Asleep" and Poems of 1912-13
Chapter 10. Yeats: "In Memory of Major Robert Gregory"
Epilogue: The English Elegy after Years, a Note on the American Elegy
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Index
