Introduction: Contemporary Pastoral Elegy 1. Inheritance and Commemoration: Memorial Landscapes in Michael Longley's Poetry 2. Community Poetry 1: Pastoral Elegy in Ted Hughes' Remains of Elmet, Moortown Diary and River 3. Community Poetry 2: Pastoral Elegy in Ted Hughes' Birthday Letters 4. Leaving Home: Seamus Heaney's Parental Elegies 5. Pastoral and Aftermath: Seamus Heaney 6. 'Routine Periodic Faunal Extinctions': Peter Reading's Ecological Elegies 7. Contemporary Female Poets and Pastoral Elegy 8. Grief Brought to Numbers: Paul Muldoon's Circular Elegies 9. The Ethics of Pastoral Elegy: Douglas Dunn and Christopher Reid Conclusion: The Future of Pastoral Elegy Bibliography Index.
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