'Then came a departure' : writing loss in the Middle Generation

Building on recent studies of twentieth-century elegy, this thesis examines the re-working of elegiac tropes in the poetry of Delmore Schwartz, Randall Jarrell, John Berryman and Robert Lowell - four writers among the Middle Generation of American poets who share a persistent preoccupation with loss...

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Main Author: Hawthorn, Ruth
Published: University of Glasgow 2012
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.669408