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)
Peter M. Sacks is an associate professor in the Writing Seminars and the Department of English at the Johns Hopkins University. He is also the author of In These Mountains, a book of poetry.
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Interpreting the Genre: The Elegy and the Work of Mourning
Chapter 2. Spenser: The Shepheardes Calender and Astrophel
Chapter 3. Where Words Prevail Not: Grief, Revenge, and Language in Kyd and Shakespeare
Chapter 4. Milton: Lycidas
Chapter 5. Jonson, Dryden, and Grey
Chapter 6. Shelley: Adonais
Chapter 7. Tennyson: In Memoriam
Chapter 8. Swinburne: Ave Atque Vale
Chapter 9. Hardy: A Singer Asleep and Poems of 1912-13
Chapter 10. Yeats: In Memory of Major Robert Gregory
Epilogue: The English Elegy after Years, a Note on the American Elegy
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Index