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'American Elegy' is the history of a diverse people's poetic experience of mourning and of mortality's challenge to creative living. By telling this history in political, psychological, and aesthetic terms, this book reconnects the study of early American poetry to the broadest currents of literary and cultural criticism.Cavitch, Max is the author of 'American Elegy The Poetry of Mourning from the Puritans to Whitman', published 2007 under ISBN 9780816648924 and ISBN 0816648921.
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