3.8. Summary

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. 1. Introduction 1
4. 2. Mourning the Death of a Beloved Person
5. 2.0. Introduction 17
6. 2.1. Ben Jonson: “On My First Daughter” (1593) and “On My First Son” (1603) 19
7. 2.2. John Donne: “Since She Whom I Loved” (1617) and John Milton: “Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint” (1658) 25
8. 2.3. Lord Byron: “Away, Away, Ye Notes of Woe” (1811) and “And Thou art Dead, as Young and Fair” (1812) 30
9. 2.4. Edgar Allan Poe: “Lenore” (1844–1849) 37
10. 2.5. Seamus Heaney: “Mid-Term Break” (1966) 41
11. 2.6. Eavan Boland: “The Blossom” (1998) and “The Pomegranate” (1994) 45
12. 2.7. Summary 54
13. 3. Coping with Loss in Love
14. 3.0. Introduction 63
15. 3.1. William Shakespeare: The Sonnets (1609) 65
16. 3.2. John Donne: “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” (1633) 79
17. 3.3. William Wordsworth: “Lucy Poems” (1800, 1801/1807) 84
18. 3.4. Emily Dickinson: “After Great Pain” (ca. 1862) 94
19. 3.5. Thomas Hardy: “The Voice” (1912/14) 99
20. 3.6. Sylvia Plath: “The Other” (1962) 107
21. 3.7. Ted Hughes: Birthday Letters (1998) 114
22. 3.8. Summary 132
23. 4. Confronting One’s Own Death
24. 4.0. Introduction 141
25. 4.1. Sir Walter Raleigh: “Verses Made the Night before He Died” (1618) and Chidiock Tichborne: “Elegy” (1586) 143
26. 4.2. John Donne: “What if this Present were the World’s Last Night” (1609/1611) 148
27. 4.3. William Cowper: “The Castaway” (1799/1800) 152
28. 4.4. John Keats: “When I have Fears that I May Cease to be” (1818) and Lord Byron: “On this Day I Complete my Thirty-Sixth Year” (1824) 162
29. 4.5. Emily Dickinson: “Because I Could not Stop for Death” (ca. 1863) 169
30. 4.6. Rupert Brooke: “The Soldier” (1914) and Wilfred Owen: “Strange Meeting” (1918) 174
31. 4.7. D. H. Lawrence: “Bavarian Gentians” (1932) 181
32. 4.8. Summary 185
33. 5. Lamenting the Death of Poets
34. 5.0. Introduction 193
35. 5.1. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey: “An Excellent Epitaph of Sir Thomas Wyatt” (1542) 195
36. 5.2. Thomas Carew: “An Elegy upon the Death of the Dean of Paul’s, Dr John Donne” (1633) 199
37. 5.3. Percy Bysshe Shelley: “Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats” (1821) 206
38. 5.4. W. H. Auden: “In Memory of W. B. Yeats” (1939) 212
39. 5.5. Seamus Heaney: “Audenesque: in memory of Joseph Brodsky” (1996) 217
40. 5.6. Summary 222
41. 6. Thematizing the Loss of an Old Order
42. 6.0. Introduction 229
43. 6.1. John Donne: An Anatomy of the World (1611) and William Shakespeare: The Sonnets (1609) 232
44. 6.2. William Wordsworth: “The World is too Much with Us” (1807) and W. B. Yeats: “High Talk” (1939) 242
45. 6.3. Percy Bysshe Shelley: “Lift not the Painted Veil” (1818/1824) and “The Cloud” (1819/1820) 250
46. 6.4. Matthew Arnold: “Dover Beach” (1851) and Gerard Manley Hopkins: “No Worst, there is None” (ca. 1885) 264
47. 6.5. T. S. Eliot: The Waste Land (1922) and “Journey of the Magi” (1930) 275
48. 6.6. W. B. Yeats: “Lapis Lazuli” (1938) 295
49. 6.7. Tony Harrison: “A Kumquat for John Keats” (1981) 301
50. 6.8. Summary 311
51. 7. Conclusion: Summary and Results 319
52. Index (authors and titles) 331