elegies

And we, apparently, mourn our parents in elegies to a much greater extent than do others in the U.S. and U.K., for example, who tend to mark the death of youth more frequently with this poetic form.

2009 March 10 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS 2009

And we, apparently, mourn our parents in elegies to a much greater extent than do others in the U.S. and U.K., for example, who tend to mark the death of youth more frequently with this poetic form.

Audio Interview with Priscila Uppal by Nigel Beale: On Canadian Elegies, and mourning 2009

The general theme of the elegies is the sorrow and desolation created by the destruction of Jerusalem [2] in 586 B.C.: the last poem (v.) is a prayer for deliverance from the long continued distress.

Introduction to the Old Testament John Edgar McFadyen

One of the earliest of the elegies was a sonnet by William Basse, who gave picturesque expression to the conviction that Shakespeare would enjoy for all time an unique reverence on the part of his countrymen.

Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays Sidney Lee 1892

'Love has no wherefore,' says one of those Latin poets who wrote love-verses called elegies, -- a name which we moderns appropriate to funeral dirges.

Kenelm Chillingly — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

'Love has no wherefore,' says one of those Latin poets who wrote love-verses called elegies, -- a name which we moderns appropriate to funeral dirges.

Kenelm Chillingly — Volume 03 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

Also in the Stranger: Annie Wagner on The Namesake, "a perfectly subtle story that stiffens with each new visual gimmick," and Michael Atkinson on a sampling of video "elegies" by Alexander Sokurov, "one of the modern age's most restless and uncompromised cinematic powerhouses."

GreenCine Daily: Shorts, 3/19. 2007

Goethe cultivated a special, italianate hand for this portfolio of twenty-four "elegies," so called because he was emulating the elegiasts of

Erotica Romana Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1790

If the sonnets, odes, and elegies are primarily concerned with "memory, private reclamation, and linguistic chop-chop," as Biespiel has it, why would a public yearning for "moral persuasion" bother with it?

Poetry 2010

If the sonnets, odes, and elegies are primarily concerned with "memory, private reclamation, and linguistic chop-chop," as Biespiel has it, why would a public yearning for "moral persuasion" bother with it?

May 2010 2010