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  2. Pastoral elegy - Wikipedia

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    Originally, in Greek and Roman poetry, an elegy was a poem written in elegiac verse, which included couplets consisting of a hexameter line followed by a pentameter line. A hexameter line contains six metrical feet while a pentameter line contains five metrical feet. Dating back to the 7th century BC, the elegy was used to write about various ...

  3. Elegy - Wikipedia

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    An elegy is a poem of serious reflection, and in English literature usually a lament for the dead. However, according to The Oxford Handbook of the Elegy, "for all of its pervasiveness ... 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 ...

  4. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard - Wikipedia

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    Holograph manuscript of Gray's "Stanzas Wrote in a Country Church-Yard". The poem most likely originated in the poetry that Gray composed in 1742. William Mason, in Memoirs, discussed his friend Gray and the origins of Elegy: "I am inclined to believe that the Elegy in a Country Church-yard was begun, if not concluded, at this time [August 1742] also: Though I am aware that as it stands at ...

  5. Lycidas - Wikipedia

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    "Lycidas" (/ ˈ l ɪ s ɪ d ə s /) 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 Cambridge who drowned when his ship sank in the Irish Sea off the coast of Wales in August 1637.

  6. The Scholar Gipsy - Wikipedia

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    What the poem actually offers is a charm of relaxation, a holiday from serious aims and exacting business. And what the Scholar-Gipsy really symbolises is Victorian poetry, vehicle (so often) of explicit intellectual and moral intentions, but unable to be in essence anything but relaxed, relaxing and anodyne.

  7. Catullus 68 - Wikipedia

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    Poem 68 is a complex elegy written by Catullus, who lived in the 1st century BCE during the time of the Roman Republic.This poem addresses common themes of Catullus' poetry such as friendship, poetic activity, love and betrayal, and grief for his brother.

  8. Astrophel (Edmund Spenser) - Wikipedia

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    Astrophel: A Pastorall Elegy upon the Death of the Most Noble and Valorous Knight, Sir Philip Sidney is a poem by the English poet Edmund Spenser. [1] It is Spenser's tribute to the memory of Sir Philip Sidney , who had died in 1586, and was dedicated "To the most beautiful and vertuous Ladie, the Countesse of Essex", Frances Walsingham ...

  9. List of Duino Elegies translations - Wikipedia

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    The Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke. Translated by Kline, A. S. Poetry in Translation. 2015. ISBN 9781512129465. "Duino Elegies". Being Here is Glorious: On Rilke, Poetry, and Philosophy with a New Translation of the Duino Elegies. Translated by Reid, James D. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press. 2015. ISBN 9780199569410. OCLC 961807367.