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Melodious Tears - The English Funeral Elegy from Spenser to Milton (Hardcover)
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Melodious Tears - The English Funeral Elegy from Spenser to Milton (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford English Monographs
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The funeral elegy is in some ways the quintessential English
Renaissance genre. This book demonstrates how the hospitality of
elegy to different styles, genres and modes, alongside the primary
formal obligation to fit the poem decorously to the subject, gave a
special value to ingenuity. The elegist, like the sonneteer, had to
prove (or at least protest) that the ingenuity was grounded in the
subject and not merely indulged in as a species of
self-advertisement or display. By the time Milton came to write
"Lycidas", the vernacular funeral elegy had developed into a form -
or rather a variety of possible forms - in which any educated
person could perform. For younger poets the elegy eventually
constituted a kind of laboratory in which they could put into
notice what they had learned about composition. It also became,
during the period covered in this study, a means of learning about
decorum, of investigating, exploring, analyzing, representing,
anatomizing social (and political) relationships on the occasion of
the subject's death. "Melodious Tears" charts the history of the
elegy from the time in the mid-16th century when it was exclusively
the province of professional writers, the
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