Author: Sacks, Peter M.
Title: The English Elegy: Studies in the Genre from Spenser to Yeats
Description: Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, 1985. Hardcover. Light blue boards with white cloth spine, gilt lettering; white dj with bw illustration, blue and black lettering; xv, 375 pp. Contents: Interpreting the genre: the elegy and the work of mourning --; Spenser: The shepheardes calendar and "Astrophel" --; Where words previal not": grief, revenge, and language in Kyd and Shakespeare --; Milton: "Lycidas" --; Jonson, Dryden, and Gray --; Shelley: "Adonais" --; Tennyson: In memoriam --; Swinburne: "Ave atque vale" --; Hardy: "A singer asleep" and Poems of 1912-13 --; Yeats: "In memory of Major Robert Gregory" --; Epilogue:; The English elegy after Yeats; a note on the American elegy. Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-365) and index. VG-/VG- (Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine, inside front and rear covers, ffep and block. Light shelfwear to boards, block, dj. Pages are otherwise clean and clear.) .

Keywords: Literature Young and Old ; Elegiac Poetry ; ;


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