Melodious Tears: The English Funeral Elegy from Spenser to Milton

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Clarendon Press, 1990 - Literary Criticism - 296 pages
The 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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Contents

The English Tradition of Elegy
9
The Elegies of Spenser and Sidney
29
Elegies on Sidney 1568 and on Queen
67
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About the author (1990)

DennisKayFellow and Tutor in EnglishLincoln College, Oxford.

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