English Elegy

Studies in the Genre from Spenser to Yeats

Häftad, Engelska, 1987

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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)

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Utgivningsdatum:1987-03-29
Mått:152 x 229 x 24 mm
Vikt:567 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:392
Förlag:Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN:9780801834714
Utmärkelser:Winner of Phi Beta Kappa's Christian Gauss Award 1986 (United States)

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Peter M. Sacks is an associate professor in the Writing Seminars and the Department of English at the Johns Hopkins University. He is also the author of In These Mountains, a book of poetry.

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Sacks's careful readings, full of suggestive and learned observations ranging from the lexical to the mythic, give this booka cumulative effect that is almost as moving as the elegies themselves. Journal of Modern Literature.

Innehållsförteckning

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