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1	In Memoriam: Authoritative Text Criticism more books like this by Alfred Tennyson, Baron, Erik Gray (Editor) add to wishlist Tennyson wrote this poem to commemorate the death of his college friend Arthur Hallam. The poem is structured as a series of individual lyrics written over the course of 17 years as Tennyson struggled to come to terms with Hallam's death and the doubts it created in him about God and the place of man in the universe. "In Memoriam" is not only one ... see all copies from $7.95! new only from $14.22! \| SVS
2	Angel Pawprints: Reflections on Loving and Losing a Canine Companion more books like this by Laurel E Hunt (Editor) add to wishlist For anyone who has ever lost a four-legged friend comes a beautiful anthology of poetry, stories, and vintage photos that celebrates pets' lives and mourns their passing. 75 photos. see all copies from $5.43! new only from $169.99! \| first editions
3	Elegies for Sir Philip Sidney more books like this add to wishlist see all copies from $7.49! new only from $67.50! \| first editions
4	Elegies more books like this by Douglas Dunn add to wishlist Winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year in 1985, these poems were written after the death of Douglas Dunn's first wife in March 1981. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.53! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	Elegy for an Age: The Presence of the Past in Victorian Literature more books like this by John Rosenberg, Pro add to wishlist A magisterial study of the Victorian longing for the past in the face of a turbulent present. see all copies from $11.99! new only from $26.99! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Donne's Idea of a Woman: Structure and Meaning in the Anniversaries more books like this by Edward Tayler add to wishlist see all copies from $2.61! new only from $4.98! \| first editions
7	Poems of mourning more books like this by Peter Washington add to wishlist Most of the poems in this collection are abo ut death, all are about loss. The poems chosen traverse a su prisingly wide range of emotions from despair to joy, resign ation to anger, all articulated in language of the greatest power and beauty. ' see all copies from $2.56! new only from $7.25! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Inventions of Farewell: A Collection of Elegies more books like this by Professor Sandra M Gilbert (Editor) add to wishlist This collection of English language poems of mourning, from the late Middle Ages to the present, traces the trajectory of grief and illustrates how the deepest sorrow has produced poignant and resonant works of art. Includes poems by Emily Dickinson, Dylan Thomas, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Sharon Olds, and others. see all copies from $2.97! new only from $24.85! \| first editions \| SVS
9	English Elegy: Studies in the Genre from Spenser to Yeats more books like this by Professor Peter M Sacks add to wishlist 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) see all copies from $8.00! new only from $27.23! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Do Not Go Gentle: Poems for Funerals more books like this by Neil Astley add to wishlist This volume of poetry provides a collection of funeral poems, appropriate for reading at a funeral or memorial service. see all copies from $5.32! new only from $9.45!
11	Elegy and Paradox: Testing the Conventions more books like this by Professor W David Shaw add to wishlist To what extent can the consolations of a poetry of loss be made to seem reasonable even compelling - to readers living today? In this book which asks, whether a historical and critical knowledge of the genre elegy is still really possible, W. David Shaw shows how the elegist's testing of conventions poses crises for understanding and shocks to ... see all copies from $3.56! new only from $3.98! \| first editions
12 view cover	The book of the Duchess more books like this by Geoffrey Chaucer, Helen Phillips add to wishlist A sleepless poet lies in his bed, reading the legend of Ceyx and Alcyone, wishing that he might be granted rest. He finally falls asleep, only to have a beautiful vision. Dreaming himself in a chamber with stained glass windows that portray the tale of Troy, the poet hears the sound of a hunting party, which he hurries to join. When the hunt ... see all copies from $9.37! new only from $9.37! \| SVS
13 view cover	a la Recherche Du Temps Perdu more books like this by Craig Raine add to wishlist Because it takes commemoration seriously, Craig Raine's poem extends the boundaries of the elegy. It tries to restore the lost person - in all her beauty, her difficulty, her charm, her formidable complexity, her sexuality, in all her reality. see all copies from $14.91! new only from $14.91! \| first editions
14 view cover	The Sorrow Psalms: A Book of Twentieth-Century Elegy more books like this by Lynn Strongin (Editor) add to wishlist Like the pilot in W. B. Yeats's "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death," each of us is challenged to "balance with this life, this death." As we share a common fate, we also share loss and sorrow. At their most mournful, with praise and love and raw emotion, poets throughout time have put their grief to paper. The elegy and its inherent drama - the ... see all copies from $17.73! new only from $17.73! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Grief and English Renaissance Elegy more books like this by G W Pigman, III Pigman add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $25.22! new only from $88.80! \| SVS
16	Vanishing Lives: Style & Self in Tennyson, D. G. Rossetti, Swinburne, & Yeats more books like this by James Richardson add to wishlist see all copies from $24.95! new only from $24.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	Grief and English Renaissance Elegy more books like this by III Pigman, G W Pigman add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $32.81! new only from $32.81! \| SVS
18 view cover	English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning more books like this by Andrea Brady add to wishlist Examining the funerary elegy in the context of early modern funerary ritual, this book also analyzes the political, aesthetic, moral, and religious developments in the period 1606-1660 and discusses the works of Donne, Jonson, Milton and Early Modern women's writing. Brady discusses both death and the body, combining literary theory, social and ... see all copies from $88.42! new only from $88.42!
19	Elegy by W. S.: A Study in Attribution more books like this by Donald W. Foster add to wishlist This study investigates the authorship of A Funerall Elegye, composed by an unidentified "W. S." in memory of William Peter, an Oxford scholar murdered on 25 January 1612. Is it a lost poem of William Shakespeare? Evidence both for and against is presented, along with the text of the 1612 quarto in facsimile, Foster's edited text, and a discussion ... see all copies from $2.12! first editions
20	Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard more books like this by Professor Harold Bloom add to wishlist see all copies from $15.00!
21 view cover	Philip Larkin: The Poet's Plight more books like this by James Booth add to wishlist This book explores Larkin's distinctive place within the poetry of the twentieth century. It includes discussion of Larkin's response to the academic professionalization of poetry fostered by "difficult" Modernism; his diverse poetry of love (in relation to the responses of the poems' addressees); his original development of the genres of ... see all copies from $76.69! new only from $76.69! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Three Old English Elegies more books like this by R F Leslie (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $28.57! new only from $28.57!
23 view cover	Deep Distresses: William Wordsworth, John Wordsworth, Sir George Beaumont: 1800-1808 more books like this by Richard E Matlak add to wishlist Deep Distresses is a study of the intersecting family and professional vicissitudes that afflicted Wordsworth during the period of his greatest poetic productivity. The negative national publicity over his mariner brother's death at sea is the focus of the family tragedy; hostile reception to Poems in Two Volumes (1807) is the focus of ... see all copies from $40.67! new only from $40.67! \| SVS
24	Donne's Anniversaries and the Poetry of Praise: The Creation of a Symbolic Mode more books like this by Barbara Kiefer Lewalski add to wishlist see all copies from $18.75! SVS
25 view cover	The Modern Elegiac Temper more books like this by John B Vickery add to wishlist see all copies from $15.50! new only from $98.41!

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