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The elegiac couplet is presumed to be the oldest Greek form of epodic poetry (a form where a later verse is sung in response or comment to a previous one). Scholars, who even in the past did not know who created it, [3] theorize the form was originally used in Ionian dirges, with the name "elegy" derived from the Greek ε, λεγε ε, λεγε—"Woe, cry woe, cry!"
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 ...
Another Greek elegiac poet, the subject of an elegy by Callimachus, was Heraclitus of Halicarnassus. [5] [6] Hermesianax was also an elegiac poet. The foremost elegiac writers of the Roman era were Catullus, Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid. Catullus, a generation earlier than the other three, influenced his younger counterparts greatly.
"Elegy", Russian song by Modest Mussorgsky; Elegy, by Elliott Carter; Elegy, by John Corigliano; Elegy, by Hubert Parry; Elegy, for guitar by Alan Rawsthorne; Elegia, Op. 4/1, a 1909 composition for string orchestra by Leevi Madetoja; Elegie, Op.36 song cycle for baritone and chamber orchestra by Othmar Schoeck
The Hillbilly Elegy movie, which is available to stream on Netflix, was watched for 19.2 million minutes on Monday, according to data from research company Luminate.That’s a 1,179% increase from ...
Similar terms include "dirge", "coronach", "lament" and "elegy". The Epitaphios Threnos is the lamentation chanted in the Eastern Orthodox Church on Holy Saturday. John Dryden commemorated the death of Charles II of England in the long poem Threnodia Augustalis, and Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote a "Threnody" in memory of his son. [3]
An elegy is a mournful, melancholy or plaintive poem, especially a lament for the dead or a funeral song. The term "elegy," which originally denoted a type of poetic meter (elegiac meter), commonly describes a poem of mourning. An elegy may also reflect something that seems to the author to be strange or mysterious.
Dirge of Three Queens (c. 1895), by Edwin Austin Abbey, inspired by The Two Noble Kinsmen. In the late Medieval period, it was common for Western Christian laity–both men and women–to attend the celebration of the Divine Office (canonical hours) according to various editions of the breviary alongside members of monastic communities. [6]