The English elegy : studies in the genre from Spenser to Yeats
In an award winning book of literary scholarship, Sacks explores the functions as well as forms of convention and provides an interpretive study of the elegy as a genre. "The English Elegy" is an ambitious and humane book, an eloquent work on the poetry of mourning. (Poetry)
Print Book, English, 1987, ©1985
Johns Hopkins paperbacks ed., 1987 View all formats and editions
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1987, ©1985
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xv, 375 pages ; 24 cm
9780801834714, 0801834716
20289918
PrefaceAcknowledgmentsChapter 1. Interpreting the Genre: The Elegy and the Work of MourningChapter 2. Spenser: The Shepheardes Calender and "Astrophel"Chapter 3. Where Words Prevail Not: Grief, Revenge, and Language in Kyd and ShakespeareChapter 4. Milton: "Lycidas"Chapter 5. Jonson, Dryden, and GreyChapter 6. Shelley: "Adonais"Chapter 7. Tennyson: In MemoriamChapter 8. Swinburne: "Ave Atque Vale"Chapter 9. Hardy: "A Singer Asleep" and Poems of 1912-13Chapter 10. Yeats: "In Memory of Major Robert Gregory"Epilogue: The English Elegy after Years, a Note on the American ElegyNotexIndex