1. Unwriting Orpheus: Swinburne's "Ave atque Vale" and the "New" Elegy -- 2. "Woman Much Missed": Writing Eurydice in Hardy's Poems of 1912-13 -- 3. The Fading of Orpheus: Women's Elegies -- 4. Avatars of Eurydice: John Berryman's Dream Songs -- 5. Beyond Mourning and Melancholia: AIDS Elegies -- 6. Against Elegies: Women's Breast Cancer Poems -- Afterwords: Why Elegies?
Summary
"Using as her starting point the story of Orpheus and Eurydice, Melissa F. Zeiger examines modern transformations of poetic elegy, particularly as they reflect historical changes in the politics of gender and sexuality. Although her focus is primarily on nineteenth- and twentieth-century poetry, the scope of her investigation is grand: from John Milton's "Lycidas" to very recently written AIDS and breast cancer elegies."--Jacket
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-187) and index
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