{"product_id":"the-modern-elegiac-temper-hardcover","title":"The Modern Elegiac Temper - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn B. Vickery\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLamentation of death is the traditional elegiac focus, but in the twentieth century the elegy has become characterized as well by the mourning of other kinds of loss--those personal, familial, romantic, cultural, and philosophical privations and dispossessions that have so greatly shaped the modern sensibility. According to John B. Vickery, a profound elegiac temper is itself the major trait of twentieth-century culture, registered in attitudes ranging from regret, sorrow, confusion, anger, anxiety, doubt, and alienation to outright despair. He transforms our understanding of the elegy and its relation to modernism in \u003ci\u003eThe Modern Elegiac Temper.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVickery offers in-depth readings of a broad sampling of British and American poems written from World War I to the present. He considers works of overlooked poets such as Vernon Watkins, George Barker, and Edith Sitwell while also attending to canonical writers such as T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, W. H. Auden, and Wallace Stevens. Taking a text-oriented rather than author- or theory-oriented approach, he discusses in turn the personal, love, cultural, and philosophical elegy and shows how war, the Great Depression, the Holocaust, and other major historical events influenced poets' elegiac expressions. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy suggesting ways in which the individual-centered concerns of the traditional elegy metamorphose under the depersonalizing lens of high modernism, Vickery reveals the modern elegy to be a finely calibrated instrument for reading and expressing, absorbing and reflecting, the modern temperament.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn B. Vickery is the author of numerous books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Literary Impact of \"The Golden Bough.\"\u003c\/i\u003e Recent articles he has written on the modern elegy have appeared in \u003ci\u003eEnglish Literature in Transition\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGenre.\u003c\/i\u003e He is a professor emeritus of English at the University of California, Riverside.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 264\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.97 x 9.36 x 6.54 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 01, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757684949280,"sku":"9780807131428","price":72.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/3111155992f77b657e81fefb6ff4cad7.webp?v=1780108952","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-modern-elegiac-temper-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}