The Poet Without a Name: Gray's Elegy and the Problem of History - Hardcover

Weinfield, Henry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0809316528 ISBN 13: 9780809316526

Publisher: Southern Illinois University Pr, 2003

Synopsis

Henry Weinfield offers a new reading not only of the Elegy itself but also of its place in English literary history. His central argument is that in Gray’sElegy the thematic constellation of poverty, anonymity, alienation, and unfulfilled potentialor what Weinfield calls the "problem of history"is fully articulated for the first time, and that, as a result, theElegy represents an important turning-point in the history of English poetry.

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About the Author

Henry Weinfield is a professor in the Program of Liberal Studies and the Department of English at Notre Dame. A poet, translator, and literary scholar, he is the author of several collections of poetry, including Without Mythologies: New and Selected Poems and Translations. He has also published a translation of and commentary on the Collected Poems of Stephane Mallarme and, with Catherine Schlegel, a translation of Hesiod's Theogony and Works and Days. In addition, he is the author of The Poet without a Name: Gray's ""Elegy"" and the Problem of History and numerous scholarly articles.

Edition details

• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Pr
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0809316528
• ISBN 13: 9780809316526
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 236