For most of the sixteenth century, English poets were clearly
anxious about the grief expressed in their funeral poems and often
rebuked themselves for indulging in it, but towards the end of the
century this defensiveness about mourning became less pressing and
persistent. The shift is part of a wider cultural change which has
escaped recognition: the emergence of a more compassionate attitude
towards the process of mourning. In charting the development of
elegy this book analyses poems by Surrey, Spenser, Jonson, Henry
King and Milton, and also surveys a wide range of forgotten verse,
both English and neo-Latin, as well as letter-writing handbooks and
moral-theological tracts. The book culminates in a detailed study
of the most famous elegy in the language, Milton's Lycidas.
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