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The Penguin Book of Elegy
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Author: Prof Stephen Regan
Title: The Penguin Book of Elegy
Binding: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 688
Release Date: 2025-04-01
Details: The comprehensive guide to a deeply human tradition of memory, mourning, and consolation through poetry
A Penguin Classic
Elegy is among the world's oldest forms of literature. Born in Ancient Greece, practiced by the Romans, revitalized by the poets of the Renaissance, and continuing down to the present day, it speaks eloquently and affectingly of the experience of loss and the yearning for consolation. It gives shape and meaning to memories too painful to contemplate, and answers our desire to fix in words what would otherwise slip our grasp. In The Penguin Book of Elegy, Andrew Motion and Stephen Regan trace the history of this tradition, from its Classical roots in the work of Theocritus, Virgil, and Ovid down to modern compositions exploring personal tragedy and collective grief by such celebrated voices of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries as Dylan Thomas, Elizabeth Bishop, Terrance Hayes and Alice Oswald. The only comprehensive anthology of its kind in the English language, The Penguin Book of Elegy is a profound and moving compendium of the fundamentally human urges to remember and honor the dead, and to give comfort to those who survive them.
EAN: 9780241269626
Package Dimensions: Height: 7.75589 Inches, Length: 5.07873 Inches, Weight: 0.80909650154 pounds, Width: 1.14173 Inches
