Obituary poetry, broadly defined, includes poems and elegies commemorating the deaths of a person or group. In its stricter sense it names a form of popular and folk verse that flourished in the nineteenth-century United States, consisting of sentimental narrative poems documenting named individuals' deaths and offering grieving families consolation through images of heavenly peace, with prominent practitioners including Julia A. Moore, G. Washington Childs and Lydia Sigourney.
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Place of Origin Notable Example Defining TraitSentimental narrative verse commemorating a named person's death and consoling mourners with descriptions of a happy afterlife 1 In the Other Atlases
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In its stricter sense, though, it refers to a genre of popular verse or folk poetry that had its greatest popularity in the nineteenth century, especially in the United States of America.
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Julia A. Moore, a poet from Michigan who published several volumes of poems mostly on obituary subjects, was a well known exponent of the genre
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The genre consists largely of sentimental narrative verse that tells the story of the demise of its typically named subjects and seeks to console their mourners with descriptions of their happy afterlife.
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