The English Elegy: Studies in the Genre From Spenser to Yeats
by Sacks, Peter M
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG-/VG- (Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine, inside front and rear covers, ffep and block. Light shelfwear to boards, bl
- ISBN 10
- 0801832543
- ISBN 13
- 9780801832543
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Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1985. Hardcover. 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.). 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.
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- Title
- The English Elegy: Studies in the Genre From Spenser to Yeats
- Author
- Sacks, Peter M
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG-/VG- (Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine, inside front and rear covers, ffep and block. Light shelfwear to boards, bl
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0801832543
- ISBN 13
- 9780801832543
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins Press
- Place of Publication
- Baltimore
- Date Published
- 1985
- Keywords
- Literature Young and Old ; Elegiac Poetry ; ;
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