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Grief and Meter
Sally Connolly
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Description for Grief and Meter
Hardback. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 522.
The elegizing of poets is one of the oldest and most enduring aspects of the English poetic tradition. Although often radical in form and critical in tone, 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.
InGrief and Meter, Sally Connolly offers the first book to focus on these poems and the role they play as a specific subgenre of elegy. By looking at these elegies as crucial moments of both celebration and appropriation, Connolly establishes a genealogy of poetry that traces ... Read more
The elegizing of poets is one of the oldest and most enduring aspects of the English poetic tradition. Although often radical in form and critical in tone, 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.
InGrief and Meter, Sally Connolly offers the first book to focus on these poems and the role they play as a specific subgenre of elegy. By looking at these elegies as crucial moments of both celebration and appropriation, Connolly establishes a genealogy of poetry that traces ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813938646
SKU
V9780813938646
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About Sally Connolly
Sally Connolly is Director of Graduate Studies for English and Assistant Professor of Contemporary Poetry at the University of Houston.
Reviews for Grief and Meter
Grief and Meter is intelligent, well informed, well written, and perceptive both about individual poems and about the history of twentieth-century poetry. It pays homage to a group of modern masters of the elegy
Auden, Brodsky, Berryman, Lowell, Heaney
and links them in a ‘golden chain’ of interruptions and appreciations. At the same time, it forges links between those poets and the ... Read more
Auden, Brodsky, Berryman, Lowell, Heaney
and links them in a ‘golden chain’ of interruptions and appreciations. At the same time, it forges links between those poets and the ... Read more