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The Duino Elegies (German: Duineser Elegien) are a collection of ten elegies written by the Bohemian - Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke. He was then "widely recognized as one of the most lyrically intense German-language poets", [1] and began the elegies in 1912 while a guest of Princess Marie von Thurn und Taxis at Duino Castle on the Adriatic ...
Propertius. Auguste Vinchon, Propertius and Cynthia at Tivoli. Sextus Propertius was a Latin elegiac poet of the Augustan age. He was born around 50–45 BC in Assisium (now Assisi) and died shortly after 15 BC. [1] Propertius' surviving work comprises four books of Elegies (Elegiae).
The elegiac couplet is a poetic form used by Greek lyric poets for a variety of themes usually of smaller scale than the epic. Roman poets, particularly Catullus, Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid, adopted the same form in Latin many years later. As with the English heroic couplet, each pair of lines usually makes sense on its own, while forming ...
Elégies de Duino; Les Sonnets à Orphée (in French). Translated by Lewinter, Roger. Paris: G. Lebovici. 1989. ISBN 2-85184-223-4. OCLC 461989583.; Les élégies de Duino = Duineser Elegien ; Les sonnets à Orphée = Die Sonette an Orpheus (in French).
The American poet Walt Whitman greatly admired Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, and was deeply affected by his assassination, writing several poems as elegies and giving a series of lectures on Lincoln. The two never met. Shortly after Lincoln was killed in April 1865, Whitman hastily wrote the first of his Lincoln ...
Lycidas. Lycidas by James Havard Thomas, bronze cast in collections of Aberdeen Art Gallery and Tate Britain. " Lycidas " (/ ˈlɪsɪdəs /) is a poem by John Milton, written in 1637 as a pastoral elegy. It first appeared in a 1638 collection of elegies, Justa Edouardo King Naufrago, dedicated to the memory of Edward King, a friend of Milton at ...
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis is a 2016 memoir by JD Vance about the Appalachian values of his family from Kentucky and the socioeconomic problems of his hometown of Middletown, Ohio, where his mother's parents moved when they were young.
Pastoral elegy. The pastoral elegy is a poem about both death and idyllic rural life. Often, the pastoral elegy features shepherds. The genre is actually a subgroup of pastoral poetry, as the elegy takes the pastoral elements and relates them to expressing grief at a loss. This form of poetry has several key features, including the invocation ...