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The English Elegy

Studies in the Genre from Spenser to Yeats

By: Peter M. Sacks

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Paperback | 16 April 1987

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Winner of the Christian Gauss Award from the Phi Beta Kappa Society

Peter Sacks explores the functions as well as the forms of convention in a book that is both an interpretive study of a genre and a series of close readings of individual poems. Moving from Spenser's "Astrophel" of 1595 to Yeats's "In Memory of Major Robert Gregory" of 1918, Sacks examines such elegiac motifs and conventions as the use of pastoral contexts, the employment of repetition and refrains, sudden outbursts of vengeful anger, and assertions of deflected sexual power. These and other elements of the elegy, he argues, are more than mere features of a conventionalized aesthetic design, they emerge as elements in the performance of the task of mourning.

Now available in paperback, The English Elegy is an ambitious and humane book, an eloquent work that counters the tendency of much recent criticism to lose the connection between literary language and the needs from which that language arises.

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""Sacks's careful readings, full of suggestive and learned observations ranging from the lexical to the mythic, give this booka cumulative effect that is almost as moving as the elegies themselves.""

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Non-Fiction Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature Literary Studies of Poetry & Poets Poetry General Literary Studies

Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Interpreting the Genre: The Elegy and the Work of Mourning	p. 1
Spenser: The Shepheardes Calender and "Astrophel"	p. 38
Where Words Prevail Not: Grief, Revenge, and Language in Kyd and Shakespeare	p. 64
Milton: "Lycidas"	p. 90
Jonson, Dryden, and Gray	p. 118
Shelley: "Adonais"	p. 138
Tennyson: In Memoriam	p. 166
Swinburne: "Ave Atque Vale"	p. 204
Hardy: "A Singer Asleep" and Poems of 1912-13	p. 227
Yeats: "In Memory of Major Robert Gregory"	p. 260
Epilogue: The English Elegy after Yeats, a Note on the American Elegy	p. 299
Notes	p. 329
Index	p. 367
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The English Elegy

Studies in the Genre from Spenser to Yeats

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