{"product_id":"9780813938653","title":"Grief and Meter: Elegies for Poets after Auden","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe elegizing of poets is one of the oldest and most enduring traditions in English poetry. Many of the most influential and best-known poems in the language—such as Milton’s \"Lycidas,\" Shelley’s \"Adonais,\" and Auden’s \"In Memory of W. B. Yeats\"—are elegies for poets.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn  \u003ci\u003eGrief and Meter,\u003c\/i\u003e Sally Connolly offers the first book to focus on these poems and the role they play as a specific subgenre of elegy, establishing a genealogy of poetry that traces the dynamics of influence and inheritance in twentieth- and twenty-first-century poetry. She identifies a distinctive and significant Anglo-American line of descent that resonates in these poems, with British poets often elegizing American ones, yet rarely the other way around. Further, she reveals how these poems function as a means of mediating, effecting, and tracing transatlantic poetic exchanges.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe author frames elegies for poets as a chain of commemoration and inheritance, each link independent, but when seen as part of the \"golden chain,\" signifying a larger purpose and having a correspondingly greater strength.  \u003ci\u003eGrief and Meter\u003c\/i\u003e provides a compelling account of how and why these poems are imbued with such power and significance.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Virginia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47068867494128,"sku":"9780813938653","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780813938653_p0.jpg?v=1763739065","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780813938653","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}