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Despite its upbeat title, The Bounty is a book of elegies, a response to the "many deaths, nothing short of a massacre"--including the deaths of his mother and his close friend, the poet Joseph Brodsky--that Walcott has endured during his seventh decade.
His greatest poems, most of them written in that same year, are elegies wrapped as odes.
One of the poet Edmund Spenser's (d.1599) most poignant elegies commemorates Douglas Howard Georges , the wife of Arthur Georges.
The publication of two new books about former editor William Shawn has inspired another round of pompous elegies for the grand old New Yorker .)