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Full text. Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady at Wikisource. " Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady ", also called " Verses to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady ", is a poem in heroic couplets by Alexander Pope, first published in his Works of 1717. [ 1] Though only 82 lines long, it has become one of Pope's most celebrated pieces.
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 ...
The poem on a gravestone at St Peter’s church, Wapley, England. " Do not stand by my grave and weep " is the first line and popular title of the bereavement poem " Immortality ", presumably written by Clare Harner in 1934. Often now used is a slight variant: "Do not stand at my grave and weep".
Only one early manuscript of Y Gododdin is known, the Book of Aneirin, thought to date from the second half of the 13th century.The currently accepted view is that this manuscript contains the work of two scribes, usually known as A and B. Scribe A wrote down 88 stanzas of the poem, [a] then left a blank page before writing down four related poems known as Gorchanau.
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 ...
My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Jo Van Arkel, who lives in Springfield, Missouri. Professor Van Arkel is a Teaching Fellow in Writing, Department of Languages and Literature, at ...
9780571101269. Preceded by. Death of a Naturalist. Followed by. Wintering Out. Door into the Dark (1969) is a poetry collection by Seamus Heaney, who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. [1] Poems include "Requiem for the Croppies", "Thatcher" and "The Wife's Tale". Heaney has been recorded reading this collection on the Seamus Heaney ...
An elegy for the dead Cynddylan, not to be confused with the probably seventh-century awdl-poem of the same name. A stray verse 17 On the burial of Cynddylan. Stafell Gynddylan 18–33 A meditation on the abandoned hall of Cynddylan. Eryr Eli 34–39 A meditation on the eagle of Eli (an unidentified place) and how he eats dead warriors. Eryr ...