Melodious Tears: The English Funeral Elegy from Spenser to MiltonThe funeral elegy is in some ways the quintessential English Renaissance genre. This book demonstrates how the elegy was used to experiment with theories of composition and style. |
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... Astrophel collection , in contrast , comes from the period when Sidney's reputation as a poet was becoming established , when his status as an exemplary Christian knight was ennobling the profession of letters.57 Spenser , as the ...
... Astrophel collection , in contrast , comes from the period when Sidney's reputation as a poet was becoming established , when his status as an exemplary Christian knight was ennobling the profession of letters.57 Spenser , as the ...
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... Astrophel Spenser develops this idea , and indicates a comprehension of death as an occasion of the assimilation of the transient into the eternal , by having the lovers united in death , and transformed into a single flower . " 68 His ...
... Astrophel Spenser develops this idea , and indicates a comprehension of death as an occasion of the assimilation of the transient into the eternal , by having the lovers united in death , and transformed into a single flower . " 68 His ...
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... Astrophel , and the fact that the first lament is tacitly built on the framework of Astrophel's art illustrates a species of immortality that contrasts with that represented by the metamorphosis into a flower . Spenser reveals the ...
... Astrophel , and the fact that the first lament is tacitly built on the framework of Astrophel's art illustrates a species of immortality that contrasts with that represented by the metamorphosis into a flower . Spenser reveals the ...
Contents
The English Tradition of Elegy | 9 |
The Elegies of Spenser and Sidney | 29 |
Elegies on Sidney 1568 and on Queen | 67 |
Copyright | |
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Agelastus anthology Arcadia Arthur Gorges Astrophel Brittaine Cambridge Chapman Churchyard consolation context conventional Countess of Bedford court dead death of prince dirge Donne's Anniversaries doth Drayton earth echo eclogue elegiac elegists Elizabeth Elizabethan English Renaissance English Renaissance Elegy epicede Epitaph example expression Faerie Queene fame fiction funeral elegy funerall genre Goodyer Grief and English hath haue heaven Henry's death imitation John Donne Jonson King Lachrimae Lachrimae lachrimarum Lady lament Lewalski literary Literature liue Lycidas Michael Drayton Milgate Milton monument mourners mourning Muse neuer Norbrook Nouember Oxford panegyric pastoral elegy Pigman poem poem's poet's poetic Poetry and Politics praise Prince Henry Prince of Wales Prince's Queen reader satirical sermon shee Shepheardes Calender Sidney's Sir Philip Sidney song sonnet sorrow soule speaker Spenser Spenserian stanzas Studies Sylvester's teares thee Thenot Thomas thou tomb tradition tyme vertues vnto volume vpon weepe William writing