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Elegiac refers either to those compositions that are like elegies or to a specific poetic meter used in Classical elegies. The Classical elegiac meter has two lines, making it a couplet: a line of da...
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These writers made a distinction between a proper elegy--which expresses sorrow and a search for consolation--and "elegiac" poetry that meditates on loss, grief, death, and mortality in a variety of verse forms, such as the ode, epitaph, and eulogy.
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elegiac poetry, Greek; This may be initially defined as poetry in elegiac couplets (hexameter followed by pentameter), one of the most popular metres throughout antiquity. A stricter definition distinguishes between elegiac poetry (elegy) and epigram (which was often but not necessarily in elegiac metre). Elegy,
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These two additions to the Loeb Classical Library [Greek Iambic Poetry and Greek Elegiac Poetry] will be welcomed by readers at all levels. Archolicus, Hipponax, Solon, the Theognidea, and many others are now accessible as never before...The translations, into prose, are wonderfully clear and readable.
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Poetry question: Example of elegiac poetry? An elegy is a lament, or a mourning for the dead or things past. Probably the most famous elegy is Thomas Gray's Elegy written in a country churchyard (1751). ... The definition for elegiac poems? What is roman elegiac poetry about? What are examples of elegiac poetry?
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Most substantial in this volume is the collection of elegiac verses to which Theognis' name is attached. Drinking and merry-making are frequent themes in these poems; there are also more reflective and philosophic pieces and love poems. ... Cover: Greek Elegiac Poetry...
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Latin - Classical Studies (Arts) ... Rm. 210 Vanier College, 416-736-5910, sueman@yorku.ca ... AS/LA 4030 3.0 Roman Elegiac Poetry...
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Donne's Anniversaries and the poetry of praise; Donne's Anniversaries and the poetry of praise: the creation of a symbolic mode; Lewalski, Barbara Kiefer; Publisher: [Princeton, N.J.] Princeton University Press [1973]; ... Elegiac poetry, English -- History and criticism; Referred from 43 books...
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