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  2. 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 ...

  3. Pastoral elegy - Wikipedia

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    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 of the Muse ...

  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. When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd - Wikipedia

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    It is a long poem, 206 lines in length (207 according to some sources), that is cited as a prominent example of the elegy form and of narrative poetry. [40] In its final form, published in 1881 and republished to the present, the poem is divided into sixteen sections referred to as cantos or strophes that range in length from 5 or 6 lines to as ...

  6. Adonais - Wikipedia

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    Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, Author of Endymion, Hyperion, etc. (/ ˌ æ d oʊ ˈ n eɪ. ɪ s / ) is a pastoral elegy written by Percy Bysshe Shelley for John Keats in 1821, and widely regarded as one of Shelley's best and best-known works. [ 1 ]

  7. If Mahashmashana is an elegy for Father John Misty, it’s ...

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    4/5 On his sixth record, the alter ego of Josh Tillman finds himself swilling around queasy questions of mortality and self-obsession

  8. Elegiac - Wikipedia

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    First, it can refer to something of, relating to, or involving, an elegy or something that expresses similar mournfulness or sorrow. Second, it can refer more specifically to poetry composed in the form of elegiac couplets. [1] An elegiac couplet consists of one line of poetry in dactylic hexameter followed by a line in dactylic pentameter.

  9. Talk:Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard - Wikipedia

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    Alfred Cellier: "In 1883, Cellier's setting of Gray's Elegy, in the form of a cantata, was produced at the Leeds music festival." William Thomas Beckford: art collector who purchased "William Blake's drawings for Gray's Elegy" (this would be one of several examples of famous illustrated editions of the Elegy)