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Product details:
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 9 August 1990
- ISBN 9780198117896
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages304 pages
- Size 223x144x23 mm
- Weight 521 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
The funeral elegy is a quintessential English Renaissance genre. This book charts the history of the elegy from the mid-16th century up to the 1630's, examines a series of detailed studies of the works of major elegists, and shows it as a kind of laboratory in which writers could put theories of composition into practice.
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The funeral elegy is in some important ways the quintessential English Renaissance genre. This book demonstrates how it developed into a kind of laboratory in which writers could put theories of composition into practice. The hospitality of elegy to different styles and modes together with its primary formal obligation to fit the poem decorously to the subject, gave a special value to ingenuity, to virtuosity. Melodious Tears charts the history of the elegy from the time in the mid-sixteenth century when it was exclusively the province of professional writers, the balladeers and chroniclers, up to the 1630s, by which time the fashion for the vernacular elegy had spread throughout the literate classes. Detailed studies of the works of major elegists, particularly Spenser, Sidney, Donne, and Milton are combined with full examination of the range and variety of elegies generated in response to the deaths of Sidney (1586), Queen Elizabeth I (1603), and Prince Henry (1612). A series of appendices contains texts of a number of elegies which survive only in manuscript.
`...there are master-pieces as well as pedestrian poetry in Melodius Tears...In Neo-Latin and in English, for the funeral elegy was "one of the ways poets learnt to write in the vernacular"' were many verses both sincere and introspective as well as many occasional and conventional. This book concisely and insightfully surveys them all.'
ibliotheque d'Humanisme el Renaissance
