Poems of Mourning
Poems of Mourning Many cultures identify mourning as the very source of poetry and music, what Elizabeth Bishop calls the art of losing. Not every poem is cornered with death, but all are about loss.…
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Poems of Mourning
Many cultures identify mourning as the very source of poetry and music, what Elizabeth Bishop calls the art of losing. Not every poem is cornered with death, but all are about loss. That might well be the title of this collection.
All the major verse forms of mourning are represented here: epitaph, requiem and lament. The poems chosen traverse a surprisingly wide range of emotions from despair to joy, resignation to anger, all articulated in language of the greatest power and beauty . Three great elergies by Milton, Whitman and Rilke are surrounded by a wide variety of shorter poems.
Naturally, the pathos of death predominates, but its comedy has not been neglected, whether in the savage poems of World War I or the gentle teasing of seventeenth-century satire. Poets include: Akhmatova, Auden, Bishop, Brodsky, Browning, Carew, Cory, Cowley, Dickinson, Donne, Dryden, Dyer, Fletcher, Graves, Gurney, Hardy, Harrison, Herrick, Hopkins, Horace, King, Leopardi, Lowell, MacCaig, Mandelstam, Milosz, Philips, Propertius, Roethke, Smith, Tennyson, Dylan Thomas, Edward Thomas and Wordsworth.
Poems of Mourning
The Bands of Mourning
The Bands of Mourning
Oxford Mourning
Mourning Ruby
Poems of Catullus
Poems of Rome
Dancers in Mourning
Mourning Becomes Electra
Poems of London