Grief and English Renaissance elegy

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Grief and English Renaissance elegy

G.W. Pigman III

Cambridge University Press, 2006, c1985

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 166-178) and index

"First published 1985. This digitally printed first paperback version 2006"--T.p. verso

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For most of the sixteenth century, English poets were clearly anxious about the grief expressed in their funeral poems and often rebuked themselves for indulging in it, but towards the end of the century this defensiveness about mourning became less pressing and persistent. The shift is part of a wider cultural change which has escaped recognition: the emergence of a more compassionate attitude towards the process of mourning. In charting the development of elegy this book analyses poems by Surrey, Spenser, Jonson, Henry King and Milton, and also surveys a wide range of forgotten verse, both English and neo-Latin, as well as letter-writing handbooks and moral-theological tracts. The book culminates in a detailed study of the most famous elegy in the language, Milton's Lycidas.

目次

  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1. The angry consoler
  • 2. The emergence of compassionate moderation
  • 3. Praise and mourning
  • 4. The shift from anxious elegy
  • 5. Surrey and Spenser
  • 6. Jonson and King
  • 7. Milton
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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