Elegy on the Death of Malvina, Berrathon, beginning, p.
The fourth complaint is an elegy on the death of Joh.
This is why the Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, by Thomas Gray, is so superior as a poem to Spoon River Anthology.
I am glad that he reprinted in this volume the elegy on the death of Arthur Upson, written in 1910; there is not a false note in it.
His genius, when it pursued its bias, found instinctive utterance inelegy and idyl, in meditative rhetoric and pastoral melody.
The character of the elegy is gentleness and tenuity; but this stanza has been pronounced by Dryden, whose knowledge of English metre was not inconsiderable, to be the most magnificent of all the measures which our language affords.
His elegy on Hallam, In Memoriam, was not published till 1850.
The only one of his poems which is at all possessed with feeling is his pathetic Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady.
We find a good illustration of this point in Gray's Elegy as punctuated by the author; and we also find in this illustration what, we believe, is a late development of the dash.
The printer who received the manuscript of the Elegy did not see the picture, and so left out the comma, thus making the intransitive verb "tolls" a transitive verb.
There was a comma in the first line of the manuscript of his Elegy in a Country Churchyard when sent to the printer: 35A.
Dafydd Nanmor is chiefly famous for two exquisite cywyddau, Cywydd Marwnad Merch, orElegy of a Maiden, and Cywydd i wallt Llio, or Cywydd to Llio's Hair.
Llywelyn Goch ap Meurig Hen deserves to be mentioned as the author of the famous Marwnad Lleucu Llwyd, an elegy which is far more convincing in its sincerity than Dafydd Nanmor's cywydd.
His greatest work, however, is the elegy to Llywelyn ab Gruffydd, the last prince of Wales.
Raleigh's solemn elegyon him is one of the finest of the many poems which that sad event called forth.
Not in such a hurry--"An Elegy on the death of a mad dog;" and what made you put in Islingtoniensis?
It is precisely on account of thiselegy that I have cared to set down this cruel anecdote.
They looked upon this young villain as a martyr, and at once dedicated an elegy to him, in which I was compared with Medea, Circe, and Fredegonde.
Soft Elegyshould sing of the Loves with their quivers, and the sprightly mistress ought to sport according to her own inclination.
Elegy acknowledges that to me she is as much indebted as is the noble Epic [1243] to Virgil.
The Daphnaida of Spenser (1591) is an elegy in the strict modern sense, namely a poem of regret pronounced at the obsequies of a particular person.
In 1579 Puttenham had defined an elegy as being a song "of long lamentation.
But we possess more of the work of Theognis of Megara than of any other archaic elegist, and in it we can observe the characteristics of Greek elegy best.
It remains for us to mention what is the most celebrated elegy in English, that written by Gray in a Country Churchyard.
In German literature, the notion of elegy as a poem of lamentation does not exist.
When the elegy appears in surviving Greek literature, we find it dedicated, not to death, but to war and love.
The elegy has flourished in Portugal, partly because it was cultivated with great success by Camoens, the most illustrious of the Portuguese poets.
Lycidas and Adonais remain the two unapproachable types of what a personal elegy ought to be in English.
His conception of an Elegy he has in his Preface very judiciously and discriminately explained.
There are a great many cruel things besides poverty that freeze the genial current of the soul, as the poet of the Elegy calls it.
One evening, I was sitting by you on the sofa, reading to you that sublime elegy of the great poet, La Tristesse d'Olympio; Raymond entered.
Here he displayed the most extraordinary mental precocity and versatility, and wrote in his thirteenth year yet another poem, the Elegy on the Death of Dudley, Lord Carlton.
Whether we regard it from a literary, a speculative, or a religious point of view, the third and central elegy cannot fail to strike us as by far the best of the five.
From suggestions thus rising out of a consideration of the opening word of the elegy we may be led on to a perception of similar traits in the body of this poetry.
The second elegy had affirmed the failure of the prophets and the vanity of their visions.
The limits of our art exclude subjects which excite a sensation of disgust; but this is just the sensation the author of the elegy deliberately aims at producing.
There can be no reasonable doubt that the language of the elegy here points to a personal and spiritual change.
The elegy in particular is found to be shaped on special lines of its own.
As a rule, the elegy is personal in character and individualistic, mourning the untimely death of some one beloved friend of the writer.
We must feel that the elegy is lifted to a higher plane by the new turn that the thought of its author takes at this place.
Twice before in the first part of the elegy the language of the poet speaking in his own person was interrupted by an outcry of Jerusalem to God.
If it is right to say that one portion of Scripture is more inspired than another we must feel that there is more Divine light in the second part of this elegy than in the first.
It would be impossible to say that the calamity that inspired the elegy was no longer even remembered by its victims.
Three out of the five elegies in Lamentations begin with it; so does the mock elegy in Isaiah.
The reflectiveness of theelegy does not take the direction of philosophy.
He also composed, about the same time, an elegy on the death of Cummian.
One of the most important documents contained in the Leabhar-na-h-Uidhre is the ancient elegy on Columcille, composed by another bard, the celebrated Dallan Forgaill so early as the end of the sixth century.
Colman, however, lived long enough after Cummian to compose an elegy on his death.
