| Description |
xv, 375 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Interpreting the genre: the elegy and the work of mourning -- Spenser: The shepheardes calendar and "Astrophel" -- Where words previal not": grief, revenge, and language in Kyd and Shakespeare -- Milton: "Lycidas" -- Jonson, Dryden, and Gray -- Shelley: "Adonais" -- Tennyson: In memoriam -- Swinburne: "Ave atque vale" -- Hardy: "A singer asleep" and Poems of 1912-13 -- Yeats: "In memory of Major Robert Gregory" -- Epilogue The English elegy after Yeats; a note on the American elegy |
| Analysis |
Elegiac poetry in English, 1558-1945 - Critical studies |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 329-365 |
| Subject |
Elegiac poetry, English -- History and criticism.
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English poetry -- History and criticism.
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Literary form.
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| LC no. |
84023381 |
| ISBN |
0801832543 (alk. paper) |
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