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Grief and Meter is intelligent, well informed, well written, and perceptive both about individual poems and about the history of twentieth-century poetry. It pays homage to a group of modern masters of the elegy--Auden, Brodsky, Berryman, Lowell, Heaney--and links them in a 'golden chain' of interruptions and appreciations. At the same time, it forges links between those poets and the long line of earlier poets who have built traditions of mourning and celebration. And it communicates a love of poetry that should appeal to readers.
--Lawrence Lipking, Chester D. Tripp Professor of Humanities Emeritus, Northwestern UniversitySally Connolly's Grief and Meter is unusually thought-provoking. Intrapoetic elegy, she argues, is how the living poet resurrects the dead poet, creating supertemporal community and tradition. Connolly's study reminds us what we conventionally forget--that poetry has a ceremonial origin. Her chapters on individual elegists (Auden, Brodsky, Lowell, Berryman, Heaney) are perceptive, graced by refreshingly sharp close readings.
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