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Grief and Meter: Elegies for Poets After Auden

Grief and Meter: Elegies for Poets After Auden

Connolly, Sally

Hardcover

Literary CriticismPoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 0813938643
ISBN13: 9780813938646
Publisher: Univ Of Virginia Pr
Published: Nov 9 2016
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.93 Width: 6.08 Depth: 9.35
Language: English

The elegizing of poets is one of the oldest and most enduring traditions in English poetry. Many of the most influential and best-known poems in the language--such as Milton's Lycidas, Shelley's Adonais, and Auden's In Memory of W. B. Yeats--are elegies for poets.

In Grief and Meter, Sally Connolly offers the first book to focus on these poems and the role they play as a specific subgenre of elegy, establishing a genealogy of poetry that traces the dynamics of influence and inheritance in twentieth- and twenty-first-century poetry. She identifies a distinctive and significant Anglo-American line of descent that resonates in these poems, with British poets often elegizing American ones, yet rarely the other way around. Further, she reveals how these poems function as a means of mediating, effecting, and tracing transatlantic poetic exchanges.

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