American Elegy: The Poetry of Mourning from the Puritans to Whitman

Index

 Index Abraham,  Abraham, Karl,  Abrahams, Roger D., n Adams, John, –, , , –,  Adams, John Quincy,  “Adonais” (Shelley), , n Adorno, Theodor,  Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain), –, – afterlife: attitudes and beliefs concerning , , , –, , –, , –, , n; as consolation , –, ; and freedom, ; instability of, . See also reunion: posthumous “Ain’t Going to Tarry Here,”  “Alastor” (Shelley),  Alcott, Bronson, n Alexiou, Margaret, n Allen, Gay Wilson, ,  Allen, Richard, , n Allen, William Francis, –; Slave Songs of the United States,  Allston, Adam,  Alsop, Richard,  Althusser, Louis, n “America in Mourning” (anon),  American Crisis # (Paine),  American imperialism, , , , –, , –, – American Indians. See Native Americans American Puritanism and the Defense of Mourning (Breitwieser), – Anderson, Benedict, , –, –,  anger, , , –, , –, , , –, , –, –, , , , . See also revenge Anglo-African Magazine,  “Anniversary Elegy on the Death of Mr Stockton the th of feb ” (Stockton),  anthologies, , –, , , , , –n, n, n, n Apollinaire, Guillaume,  Apollo, ,  apotheosis: of Franklin, ; of Lincoln, ; of Washington,  “April th, ” (Lazarus), – Ariès, Philippe,  Aristotle,  “Astrophel” (Spenser), ,  Audubon, John James, n Augustanism. See poetry: and neoclassicism  INDEX Auld, Sophia,  Autobiography (Franklin), –,  “Baby Gone Home,”  Bacon, Nathaniel,  Bain, Robert, –n Baker, Jean, n Bakhtin, Mikhail,  Ball, Charles, , – Barker, John,  Barnes, Elizabeth,  Basker, James G., n Bauman, Zygmunt, , –, , n, n “Beat! Beat! Drums!” (Whitman),  Becker, Ernest,  Beethoven, Ludwig van,  Behind the Scenes (Keckley),  Belcher, Jonathan, – Bell, James Madison, ,  Benjamin, Walter, –, ; “Theses on the Philosophy of History,”  Bennett, Paula Bernat, –n, n Bercovitch, Sacvan, n Bewell, Alan, n Bigelow, Gordon, n Binswanger, Ludwig,  bird, figure of: in Bryant, –; in Du Bois, –; in Horton, , ; in Swinburne, ; in Whitman, , , –, –, –, –, , n, n. See also nightingale Blackmore, Richard,  Blair, Robert, ; The Grave, –,  Blake (Delany), – Blasing, Mutlu Konuk,  Bloom, Harold, , , n Bloomfield, Morton W., –n Bollas, Christopher, –, ,  Bonifacius (Mather), – Booth, John Wilkes, – Boston News-Letter,  Bowdoin, James,  Bowlby, John,  Boyd, Julian,  Bradstreet, Anne, ; “An Elegy upon that Honorable and Renowned Knight Sir Philip Sidney,” – Brady, Matthew, –,  Brainard, John,  Breintnall, Joseph, , – Breitwieser, Mitchell, , –, , , n; American Puritanism and the Defense of Mourning, – Brock, Sallie: The Southern Amaranth, – Brodhead, Richard, n Brooke, Henry: Gustavas Vasa,  Brown, Charles Brockden, , , , –, –; Edgar Huntly, , ; “Monody, On the Death of Gen. George Washington,” –,  Brown, John,  Brown, Mary,  Brown, Matthew,  Brown, William Wells, , ; Clotel, – Browning, Elizabeth Barrett,  Brownson, Orestes,  Bryant, John,  Bryant, Peter, –, n Bryant, Sarah,  Bryant, William Cullen, , –, –, , , n, n–; “The Burial-Place: A Fragment,” –; “Death of the Flowers,” n; “Early American Verse,” ; “Green River,” , ; “Hymn to Death,” , –, , ; “Indian at the Burial-Place of His Fathers,” –; “Indian Girl’s Lament,” –; “Indian Spring,” –; “Monument Mountain,” n; “On Poetry and Its Relation to Our Age and Country,” –; “On the Happy Temperament,” –; “On Trisyllabic Feet in INDEX  Iambic Measure,” ; Poems, ; “The Prairies,” , , , –, , n–; “The Rivulet,” ; “Summer Wind,” ; “Thanatopsis,” , –, , –, , , , n–, n; “To a Waterfowl ,”  Buchanan, Robert Williams,  Bucke, Richard Maurice, ,  Buell, Lawrence,  burial places, –, , , , , , , , –, , , , , n, –n burial practices. See mourning: social practices of Burgett, Bruce, n “The Burial-Place: A Fragment” (Bryant), – Burke, Kenneth, ,  Burr, Aaron, – Burroughs, John, ,  Burt, Asa,  Butler, Jon, n Butler, Judith, , n Byfeild, W., – Byles, Mather, –, , ; “Poem on the Death of King George I and Accession of King George II,”  Caldwell, Charles,  Calvert, Benedict, –,  Calvert, Charles,  Cameron, Sharon,  Campbell, Alfred Gibbs, , ; “The Doom of Slavery,” ; “Ode to Death,”  Carlyle, Thomas, – Caroline (queen of England), – Carr, Caleb,  Carretta, Vince,  Carver, Jonathan,  Cary, Alice,  Castleman, James, – Castleman, Stephen, – castration, , ,  Castronovo, Russ, n Cavell, Stanley, n cemeteries. See burial places; Rural Cemetery Movement “Centenarian’s Story, The” (Whitman), – Centinel of Liberty (Georgetown),  chain, figure of, , –, , , –, – Channing, William Ellery,  “Chants Democratic” (Whitman),  Charlotte Temple (Rowson), ,  Charvat, William, , n Cherniavsky, Eva,  child, figure of, –, , –, –, , –, ; in Douglass, –, ; in Du Bois, –, ; in Emerson, –, –, –, –; in Horton, ; in “Monimba: A True Story,” –; in Payne, –; in Sigourney, –; in Smith, ; in Wheatley, –; in White, –; in Whitman, –, , . See also elegy: and children “Child’s Champion, The” (Whitman),  Chinard, Gilbert, n, n Chivers, Thomas Holley, ,  Christ, , , , –, , , ,  “Church-Monuments” (Herbert),  Cincinnatus,  Cioran, E. M.,  “Circles” (Emerson),  Clampitt, Amy: “The Dakota,”  Clapp, Henry,  Clark, George W.,  Clarkson, Thomas,  Clemens, Olivia Susan (“Susy”), – Clemens, Samuel. See Twain, Mark Clémentine et Désormes (Monvel), – Clotel (Brown), – Coffin, Frank Barbour,  Cohen, Patricia Cline, n  INDEX Cole, Phyllis,  Cole, Thomas, n Coleridge, Hartley,  Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: “The Nightingale ,”  Colored American,  “Columbia’s Distress” (anon),  “Commemoration Ode” (Lowell),  Commercial Advertiser (New York), ,  “Compensation” (Emerson), –, ,  competition, poetic, , , ,  “Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey” (Wordsworth),  Concord Free Press,  Condorcet,  The Conduct of Life (Emerson),  Connerton, Paul,  consolation, , , , , , , , , , , , –, –, –, , , , , , , ; literature of, , ; poetry of, , , , , , , –, ; religious, , , –, –, –, ,  The Continuity of American Poetry (Pearce),  Cook, Ebenezer,  Cooper, James Fenimore,  Cooper, Samuel,  Cooper, Thomas, – Corinna of Tanagra,  corpse, figure of, , , , , –, n; in William...