Search results for "Elegy" - New World Encyclopedia

From New World Encyclopedia
  • Gray's masterpiece, the lengthy "Elegy on a Country Churchyard, ... until 1751, with the publication of "Elegy for a Country Churchyard ...
    10 KB (1,574 words) - 21:15, 30 April 2023
  • epigrams written in the usual dialect of elegy, Ionic with an epic coloring ... excelled" in the genre of elegy: "His genius was inclined ...
    7 KB (1,177 words) - 22:13, 29 January 2023
  • from pessimism to hopelessness, and elegy became his preferred form of expression. He died in 1844 at Naples, where he had gone in pursuit of ...
    7 KB (1,089 words) - 18:40, 31 May 2022
  • :Opus 8: To the Memory of a Hero, elegy for orchestra (1885) ... :Opus 17: "Elegy" in D-flat major for cello and piano (1888) ...
    11 KB (1,503 words) - 10:09, 4 January 2023
  • it was no surprise that Hafez wrote a mournful elegy for the loss. The elegy, one of Hafez's finest poems, is notable for its unusual shift ...
    10 KB (1,669 words) - 16:39, 21 January 2024
  • and "Bullfinch" (1800), a poignant elegy on the death of his friend, Count Alexander Suvorov—like Potemkin a military general. ...
    6 KB (929 words) - 15:18, 23 October 2022
  • inspired genres, including the epigram, elegy, satire and pastoral. Due to this adherence to classical form (as well as his royalist politics ...
    8 KB (1,326 words) - 05:06, 15 December 2022
  • * Bayley, J. Elegy for Iris, 1999 * _________. Iris: A Memoir, 1998 * _________. Iris and Her Friends, 1999 * Wilson, A.N. Iris Murdoch as I ...
    8 KB (1,094 words) - 13:15, 6 March 2024
  • first appearance of Eloisa to Abelard and Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate ... * (1717) Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady * (1728) The Dunciad ...
    16 KB (2,637 words) - 14:35, 18 July 2023
  • in Nantucket," which was written as an elegy for Warren Winslow, Lowell's cousin, who had drowned at sea during the course of the Second ...
    8 KB (1,303 words) - 01:42, 16 December 2022
  • of individual life. Rejecting conventional elegy as too formalistic to render the experience of grief and loss, Tennyson moves from despair through ...
    9 KB (1,502 words) - 16:53, 20 July 2023
  • works, including a tuba concerto, An Oxford Elegy on texts of Matthew Arnold ... *An Oxford Elegy for narrator, mixed chorus and small orchestra (1949) ...
    18 KB (2,733 words) - 00:30, 8 December 2022
  • will perish. The story begins and ends as an elegy, with the tolling of the temple bells symbolizing defeat and death. Buddhist monks used the ...
    10 KB (1,591 words) - 17:35, 30 April 2023
  • colored abstractions, such as Pink Landscape and Elegy. As his work progressed, the heightened colors and elegant lines of the abstractions began to ...
    10 KB (1,460 words) - 15:38, 6 May 2023
  • * Elegy for Cello and Piano (1925) * Piece for Cello and Piano (1926) * Dream, for cello and piano (1927) * Sonata for Solo Cello (1974) ...
    10 KB (1,319 words) - 21:29, 11 August 2023
  • Elliot Carter writes well for the viola. His Elegy is one of many fine compositions employing the viola, subsequently transcribed for clarinet. Ernst ...
    22 KB (3,581 words) - 20:26, 3 May 2023
  • theology. The book, The Tenth Muse includes an elegy to Elizabeth I in which Bradstreet supports the political and leadership power of women. She drew ...
    10 KB (1,589 words) - 01:58, 26 June 2021
  • While interpretations vary, My Ántonia is clearly an elegy to the proud, hard-working immigrants who built new lives west of the Mississippi ...
    10 KB (1,563 words) - 12:02, 5 May 2023
  • which contained among other poems his great elegy to the death of Abraham Lincoln ... composed a spare and remarkably haunting elegy during this period, entitled ...
    22 KB (3,515 words) - 22:10, 3 May 2023
  • John Donne (pronounced Dun; 1572 – March 31, 1631) was a Jacobean metaphysical poet. His works include sonnets, love poetry, religious poems ...
    11 KB (1,757 words) - 04:55, 3 August 2022

View (previous 20 | next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)