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"I shall weep though I be stone": Grief and Language in Andrew Marvell

Henrichs, Amanda K. (2008)

Through the centuries, critics have struggled with the poetry of Andrew Marvell, using diverse frameworks to examine his work. In this thesis, three poems – “Upon the Death of the Lord Hastings,” “Mourning,” and “The Nymph ...
Musing Sadly on the Dead: Erotic Epistemology in the Nineteenth-Century English Elegy

Green, Jordan (University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)

This project is about what I am calling an “erotic epistemology” in nineteenth-century English elegiac poetry, a condition or event in a poetic text in which the discourses of love and knowledge are, to use a term Shelley ...
The "Mourning Child": Divine and Mortal Absence in George Herbert's English and Classical Verse

Morton-Starner, Erica (University of Oregon, 2016-02-23)

The period of tumultuous religious reformation during which George Herbert lived demanded of people a strict adherence to the paradigmatic structures that prescribed the ways in which public displays of religious conviction ...