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Grief and English Renaissance Elegy
Contributor(s): Pigman III, G. W. (Author)

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 ISBN: 0521268710     ISBN-13: 9780521268714
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
OUR PRICE: $90.24  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: February 1985
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Annotation: For most of the sixteenth century, English poets were clearly anxious about the grief expressed in their funeral poems and often rebuked themselves for indulging in it, but towards the end of the century this defensiveness about mourning became less pressing and persistent. The shift is part of a wider cultural change which has escaped recognition: the emergence of a more compassionate attitude towards the process of mourning. In charting the development of elegy this book analyses poems by Surrey, Spenser, Jonson, Henry King and Milton, and also surveys a wide range of forgotten verse, both English and neo-Latin, as well as letter-writing handbooks and moral-theological tracts. The book culminates in a detailed study of the most famous elegy in the language, Milton??'s Lycidas.
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BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Drama | European - General
Dewey: 821.009
LCCN: 84045450
Physical Information: 0.56" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" L (0.88 lbs) 196 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
Features: Bibliography
 
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For most of the sixteenth century, English poets were clearly anxious about the grief expressed in their funeral poems and often rebuked themselves for indulging in it, but towards the end of the century this defensiveness about mourning became less pressing and persistent. The shift is part of a wider cultural change which has escaped recognition: the emergence of a more compassionate attitude towards the process of mourning. In charting the development of elegy this book analyses poems by Surrey, Spenser, Jonson, Henry King and Milton, and also surveys a wide range of forgotten verse, both English and neo-Latin, as well as letter-writing handbooks and moral-theological tracts. The book culminates in a detailed study of the most famous elegy in the language, Milton's Lycidas.
 
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