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From:Twentieth-Century Children's Writers (4th ed.)It is not always realised that—a few private oddities apart—J.M. Barrie produced only one work for the young. But that one, a major myth of the new century, was written in many forms over many years, before and after the...
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From:Reference Guide to World Literature (2nd ed.)Together with Montale, Giuseppe Ungaretti is regarded as the most important modern Italian poet. This, however, does not mean that there is any fundamental affinity between the two, nor, for that matter, any comparison...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)Adonais was written from April to June 1821, and printed in July, in grief and anger over the death of the 26-year-old John Keats. Keats died in Rome on 23 February of tuberculosis, induced, Percy Bysshe Shelley claimed,...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)William Wordsworth is always thought of as the pre-eminent poet of nature, though he declared himself that his subject was ``the Mind of Man—/My haunt, and the main region of my song.'' It is true that his chief concern...
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From: The Sacred and Profane in English Renaissance Literature[(essay date 2008) In the following essay, Papazian considers two expressions of grief among Donne’s poems: “A Nocturnall upon S. Lucies Day” and the sonnet “Since She Whome I Lovd.” As Papazian notes, the poems...
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From: Laments for the Lost in Medieval Literature[(essay date 2010) In the following essay, Harris suggests that Egill’s narrative of bereavement identifies the poet with the god Odin, who was bereft of his son, Baldr, in an untimely accident. In addition to Egill’s...
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From:Reference Guide to Short FictionAlthough Luigi Pirandello is best known as a dramatist, he himself felt that his short stories, of which he wrote over two hundred, would be his primary claim to artistic fame. Reflecting his mastery of drama, many of...
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From:Irish Pages: A Journal of Contemporary Writing (Vol. 7, Issue 2)On the plane of between ... after the death of a brother Two summers ago we spent a couple of weeks in a cottage on the Iveragh Peninsula in County Kerry. For the first week the rain was relentless. Out on the side...
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From:Queen's Quarterly (Vol. 125, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedI have taught King Lear many times since the time my students banded together to educate their teacher. I still say death is inside the characters. But-I add-that is just the beginning of what we must understand about...
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From:Prairie Schooner (Vol. 95, Issue 2)In a garden in the town of Otsuchi, in the northern region of Japan, Itaru Sasaki set up a telephone connected to nothing. This is not a cellular phone without a talk, text, and data plan. It is not simply a phone...
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From:Antipodes (Vol. 17, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAFTER BALI, OCTOBER 12, 2002, A RANGE OF PUBLIC rituals took place in Australia to remember those who had been killed in the bombing. In Melbourne, the most visible, and collective ritual was the laying of flowers by...
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From:Southern Cultures (Vol. 21, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedEmmylou Harris's solo musical career began with a death. On September 19, 1973, her duet partner Gram Parsons collapsed from a drug overdose and died in his hotel room in Joshua Tree, California. Harris and Parsons had...
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From:Women and Language (Vol. 16, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedTwo sisters experience guilt and remorse following their mother's death. One was unable to come to terms with the loss because she had not been present at the time of death. The other had grieved during the terminal...
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From:The American Scholar (Vol. 86, Issue 2)October 2014. A gray-sky day in a cold town that will never feel like home. The temptation to hopelessness is strong. Last night, my girlfriend unknowingly put on the music I used to play to get my infant son to sleep....
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From:Ethnology (Vol. 43, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedChallenging the normative practice of interment, scattering ashes emerged as a new ritual in Japan during the 1990s. Both sensational and controversial, the practice has met with cries of protest and enthusiastic...
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From:Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: International Review of English Studies (Vol. 50, Issue 2-3) Peer-ReviewedMost Western cultures place a great value on autonomy. American society in particular has always stressed the need to succeed via self-reliance, a characteristic which, in recent decades, has additionally manifested...
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From:European Judaism (Vol. 36, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIt was a hot Saturday night in the summer of 1986. I was alone at home in Bournemouth. My wife, Ruth, and my children, Naomi and Joel, were on a family visit to London. I was sitting in the living room, where my eye...
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From:Existential Analysis (Vol. 23, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe enduring and growing popularity of social networking sites and technologically mediated communications means that not only are we increasingly telepresent with one another in life, but we leave behind a digital...
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From:English Literature in Transition 1880-1920 (Vol. 45, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedWHEN BLUE-EYED, six-year-old Josephine Kipling died of pneumonia in 1899 during the family's visit to New York, prolonged grief seized her father and violently tore from him a certain zest for living. Those who knew him...
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From:Confrontation (Vol. 114) Peer-ReviewedWhen the R.N. at the nursing home told me Mother might die any day, I hit the Emily Dickinson hard, even keeping a collection of her poetry open on the kitchen counter for easy access. Through that cold winter I stood...