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In an award winning book of literary scholarship, Sacks explores the functions as well as forms of convention and provides an interpretive study of the elegy as a genre. "The English Elegy" is an ambitious and humane book, an eloquent work on the poetry of mourning. (Poetry)
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Interpreting the Genre: The Elegy and the Work of Mourning
Chapter 2. Spenser: The Shepheardes Calender and "Astrophel"
Chapter 3. Where Words Prevail Not: Grief, Revenge, and Language in Kyd and Shakespeare
Chapter 4. Milton: "Lycidas"
Chapter 5. Jonson, Dryden, and Grey
Chapter 6. Shelley: "Adonais"
Chapter 7. Tennyson: In Memoriam
Chapter 8. Swinburne: "Ave Atque Vale"
Chapter 9. Hardy: "A Singer Asleep" and Poems of 1912-13
Chapter 10. Yeats: "In Memory of Major Robert Gregory"
Epilogue: The English Elegy after Years, a Note on the American Elegy
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Index