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Elegy is a form of poetry natural to the reflective mind. It may treat of any subject, but it must treat of no subject for itself; but always and exclusively with reference to the poet. As he will feel regret for the past or desire for the future, so sorrow and love became the principal themes of the
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For all of its pervasiveness, however, the 'elegy' remains remarkably ill-defined: sometimes used as a catch-all to denominate texts of a somber or pessimistic tone, sometimes as a marker for textual monumentalizing, and sometimes strictly as a sign of a lament for the
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In English literature, the more modern and restricted meaning, of a lament for a departed beloved or tragic event, has been current only since the sixteenth century; the broader concept was still employed by
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Innovation in the elegiac register has often occurred at the level of orchestration, adding hybrid strains to the register that depart from the founding example of Barber's strings-only
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in nature. Because of its structural potential for rhetorical effects, the elegiac couplet was also used by both Greek and Roman poets for witty, humorous, and
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is a poem of serious reflection, and in English literature usually a lament for the dead. However, according to
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for his elegies written in the early seventeenth century. That looser concept is especially evident in the
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Jorge Manrique's Coplas por la muerte de su padre: A history of the poem and its reception
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In the Islamic world—namely Shia Islam, the most famous examples are elegies written by
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and covering a wide range of subject matter (death, love, war). The term also included
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Other than epitaphs, examples of ancient elegy as a poem of mourning include
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elegy. Elegy presents every thing as lost and gone or absent and future.
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American Elegy: The Poetry of Mourning from the Puritans to Whitman
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and others, the term had come to mean "serious meditative poem":
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Specimens of the Table Talk of the late Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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on his dead mistress Cynthia and a matriarch of the prominent
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The English Elegy: Studies in the Genre from Spenser to Yeats
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The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory
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and his followers are very common and produced even today.
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Poetry of Mourning: The Modern Elegy from Hardy to Heaney
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Poem of serious reflection, usually a lament for the dead
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(1998). 1412: 1334: 1187:, and the first movement, "Elegy", of 1121:In Spain, one of the capital works in 985:, on his dead brother, and elegies by 912:Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard 2360:Do not go gentle into that good night 1823: 1767: 1720: 1503: 1069:Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard 24: 2346:Because I could not stop for Death 1772:. Johns Hopkins University Press. 1714: 1340:"The Old English Elegy as a Genre" 1075: 25: 2407: 1787: 1734:. University of Minnesota Press. 1405:Nagy G. "Ancient Greek elegy" in 2339:And death shall have no dominion 2284:Sleep and His Half-Brother Death 1805: 1793: 1407:The Oxford Handbook of the Elegy 1394:Etymological Dictionary of Greek 1299:The Oxford Handbook of the Elegy 1128:Coplas por la Muerte de su Padre 896:The Oxford Handbook of the Elegy 847: 54: 2312:The Three Ages of Man and Death 2235:Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May 1753:. University of Chicago Press. 1669: 1645: 1581: 1568: 1480:"Elegy Examples and Definition" 1460:The Center for Hellenic Studies 1001:, which he likened to a death. 1522: 1497: 1472: 1448: 1399: 1378: 1344:ESC: English Studies in Canada 1328: 1289: 1049:seeks to tell. By the time of 13: 1: 2051:Capuchin catacombs of palermo 1810:The dictionary definition of 1529:Battles, Paul (Winter 2014). 1283: 1062:A famous example of elegy is 1027: 1004: 1657:creativewriting.uchicago.edu 1296:Weisman, Karen, ed. (2010). 939: 7: 2123:The Masque of the Red Death 1204: 10: 2412: 1201:has an elegiac character. 1163:. Other examples include 1009: 933: 901: 36: 29: 2328: 2179: 2149:Death and Transfiguration 2131: 2079: 2059: 2028: 2021: 1950: 1937:Personifications of death 1858: 1618:Marino, Nancy F. (2011). 1171:for cello and piano, the 1169:Elegy in C minor (op. 24) 1924:Sic transit gloria mundi 1768:Sacks, Peter M. (1987). 1749:Ramazani, Jahan (1994). 1725:. 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Index

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Eulogy
Literature

Oral literature
Folklore
fable
fairy tale
folk play
folksong
heroic epic
legend
myth
proverb
Oration
Performance
audiobook
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Saying
Drama
closet drama
Poetry
lyric
narrative
Prose
Nonsense
verse
Ergodic
Electronic

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