Table of Contents

1 Introduction Peter Hühn 1

2 Mourning the Death of a Beloved Person 15

2.0 Introduction Peter Hühn 17

2.1 Ben Jonson: "On My First Daughter" and "On my First Son" Peter Hühn 19

2.2 John Donne: "Since She Whom I Loved" and John Milton: "Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint" Peter Hühn 25

2.3 Lord Byron: "Away, Away, Ye Notes of Woe" and "And Thou Art Dead" Peter Hühn 30

2.4 E. A. Poe: "Lenore" Peter Hühn 37

2.5 Seamus Heaney: "Mid-Term Break" Heilna du Plooy 41

2.6 Eavan Boland: "The Blossom" and "The Pomegranate" Peter Hühn 45

2.7 Summary Peter Hühn 54

3 Coping with Loss in Love 61

3.0 Introduction Peter Hühn 63

3.1 William Shakespeare: The Sonnets Peter Hühn 65

3.2 John Donne: "Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" Stefan Schenk-Haupt 79

3.3 William Wordsworth: "Lucy Poems" Peter Hühn 84

3.4 Emily Dickinson: "After Great pain" Heilna du Plooy 94

3.5 Thomas Hardy: "The Voice" Britta Goerke 99

3.6 Sylvia Plath; "The Other" Stefan Schenk-Haupt 107

3.7 Ted Hughes: Birthday Letters Peter Hühn 114

3.8 Summary Peter Hühn 132

4 Confronting One's Own Death 139

4.0 Introduction Peter Hühn 141

4.1 Sir Walter Raleigh: "Verses Made the Night Before He Died" and Chidiock Tichborne: "Tichborne's Elegy" Peter Hühn 143

4.2 John Donne: "What if this Present were the World's Last Night" Peter Hühn 148

4.3 William Cowper: "The Castaway" Britta Goerke 152

4.4 John Keats: "When I have Fears that I May Cease to be" and Lord Byron: "On this Day I Complete my Thirty-Sixth Year" Peter Hühn 162

4.5 Emily Dickinson: "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" Heilna du Plooy 169

4.6 Rupert Brooke: "The Soldier" and Wilfred Owen: "Strange Meeting" Peter Hühn 174

4.7 D. H. Lawrence: "Bavarian Gentians" Peter Hühn 181

4.8 Summary Peter Hühn 185

5 Lamenting the Death of Poets 191

5.0 Introduction Peter Hühn 193

5.1 Henry Howard, Farl of Surrey: "An Excellent Epitaph of Sir Thomas Wyatt" Peter Hühn 195

5.2 Thomas Carew: "An Elegie upon the Death of the Dean of St. Paul's, Or John Donne" Peter Hühn 199

5.3 Percy Bysshe Shelley: "Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats" Peter Hühn 206

5.4 W. H. Auden: "In Memory of W. B. Yeats" Peter Hühn 212

5.5 Seamus Heaney: "Audenesque; in memory of Joseph Brodsky" Peter Hühn 217

5.6 Summary Peter Hühn 222

6 Thematizing the Loss of an Old Order 227

6.0 Introduction Peter Hühn 229

6.1 John Donne: An Anatomy of the World and William Shakespeare: The Sonnets Peter Hühn 232

6.2 William Wordsworth: "The World is too Much with Us" and W. B. Yeats: "High Talk" Peter Hühn 242

6.3 Shelley: "Lift not the Painted Veil" (Peter Hühn) and "The Cloud" Britta Goerke 250

6.4 Matthew Arnold: "Dover Beach" and Gerald Manley Hopkins: "No Worst, there is None" Peter Hühn 264

6.5 T. S. Eliot: The Waste Land (Peter Hühn) and "Journey of the Magi" Britta Goerke 275

6.6 W. B. Yeats: "Lapis Lazuli" Peter Hühn 295

6.7 Tony Harrison: "A Kumquat for John Keats" Britta Goerke 301

6.8 Summary Peter Hühn 311

7 Conclusion: Summary and Results Peter Hühn 319

Index (authors and titles) 331