{"product_id":"the-english-elegy-9780801834714","title":"The English Elegy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSacks'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. Journal of Modern Literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Interpreting the Genre: The Elegy and the Work of Mourning\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. Spenser: \u003ci\u003eThe Shepheardes Calender\u003c\/i\u003e and \"Astrophel\"\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. Where Words Prevail Not: Grief, Revenge, and Language in Kyd and Shakespeare\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. Milton: \"Lycidas\"\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. Jonson, Dryden, and Grey\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. Shelley: \"Adonais\"\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. Tennyson: \u003ci\u003eIn Memoriam\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8. Swinburne: \"Ave Atque Vale\"\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9. Hardy: \"A Singer Asleep\" and \u003ci\u003ePoems of 1912-13\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10. Yeats: \"In Memory of Major Robert Gregory\"\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue: The English Elegy after Years, a Note on the American Elegy\u003cbr\u003eNotex\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51768053072215,"sku":"9780801834714","price":30.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780801834714.jpg?v=1758716085","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-english-elegy-9780801834714","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}