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Gray's masterpiece, the lengthy "Elegy on a Country Churchyard, ... until 1751, with the publication of "Elegy for a Country Churchyard ...

epigrams written in the usual dialect of elegy, Ionic with an epic coloring ... excelled" in the genre of elegy: "His genius was inclined ...

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 ...

:Opus 8: To the Memory of a Hero, elegy for orchestra (1885) ... :Opus 17: "Elegy" in D-flat major for cello and piano (1888) ...

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 ...

and "Bullfinch" (1800), a poignant elegy on the death of his friend, Count Alexander Suvorov—like Potemkin a military general. ...

inspired genres, including the epigram, elegy, satire and pastoral. Due to this adherence to classical form (as well as his royalist politics ...

* Bayley, J. Elegy for Iris, 1999 * _________. Iris: A Memoir, 1998 * _________. Iris and Her Friends, 1999 * Wilson, A.N. Iris Murdoch as I ...

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 ...

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 ...

of individual life. Rejecting conventional elegy as too formalistic to render the experience of grief and loss, Tennyson moves from despair through ...

works, including a tuba concerto, An Oxford Elegy on texts of Matthew Arnold ... *An Oxford Elegy for narrator, mixed chorus and small orchestra (1949) ...

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 ...

colored abstractions, such as Pink Landscape and Elegy. As his work progressed, the heightened colors and elegant lines of the abstractions began to ...

* Elegy for Cello and Piano (1925) * Piece for Cello and Piano (1926) * Dream, for cello and piano (1927) * Sonata for Solo Cello (1974) ...

Elliot Carter writes well for the viola. His Elegy is one of many fine compositions employing the viola, subsequently transcribed for clarinet. Ernst ...

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 ...

While interpretations vary, My Ántonia is clearly an elegy to the proud, hard-working immigrants who built new lives west of the Mississippi ...

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 ...

John Donne (pronounced Dun; 1572 – March 31, 1631) was a Jacobean metaphysical poet. His works include sonnets, love poetry, religious poems ...

* An Elegy, Sacred to the Memory of the Great Divine, the Reverend and Learned Dr. Samuel Cooper, Who Departed This Life December 29, 1783 ...

upon Alfasi’s death he composed an elegy to his master (Brody, Diwan ... the Holy City, he sang his most beautiful elegy, the celebrated "Zionide ...

#039;s Pèlerinage de la vie humaine. An elegy "Of the death of the noble prince Kynge Edwarde the forth," included in some of the ...

Frost's poem, "My Butterfly: An Elegy," his first published work, which earned him $15. At this time, Frost made an important ...

*Elegy Op. 8a, 8b (191?) *Bagatellen (1911) *Piano Sonatina (1915) *Romanian Folk Dances (1915); These were also arranged for piano and violin ...

Henry, Lord Hastings from smallpox, was an elegy with a strong royalist feeling that alludes to the execution of King Charles I on January 30, 1649. ...

meeting of the Arcadian Academy, he recited an elegy on his patron, and then settled down to enjoy his wealth. Metastasio was now twenty. During ...

* Boccaccio, Giovanni. The Elegy of Lady Fiammetta. University of Chicago Press, 1990. ISBN 978-0226062761 * Consoli, Joseph P. Giovanni Boccaccio: ...

second movement is a waltz, followed by an elegy and a spirited Russian finale ... Claude Debussy. At the same time, it is an elegy on the death of Nikolai Rubinstein ...

* Elegy for Young Lovers (1961, with Chester Kallman, libretto for an opera by Hans Werner Henze) * The Dyer's Hand (1962, essays) ...

Chaucer's first major work, The Book of the Duchess, was an elegy for Blanche of Lancaster, but reflects some of the signature techniques ...

View of Reform. In 1821, wrote his elegy to John Keats, entitled Adonais. In 1822, Shelley arranged for Leigh Hunt, a poet and an editor who had ...

and "Bullfinch" (1800), a poignant elegy on the death of his friend, Count Alexander Suvorov—like Potemkin a military general. ...

*Elegy for string orchestra, Op.58 (1909) *Romance for bassoon and orchestra, Op.62 (1909) *Concerto for violin and orchestra in B minor, Op.61 ...

quot; (quoted in Garrett, Sidney 55). No better elegy for him could be given. ==Works== ===The Defence of Poesie=== Sidney wrote the Defence before ...

jazz composers. Of all his works, his elegant elegy for Lester Young, "Goodbye Porkpie Hat" (from Mingus Ah Um) has probably had the most ...

of a political conspiracy, Gabirol composed an elegy of more than two hundred verses. By 19, Gabirol was afflicted by a chronic illness which caused ...

in epic scope and accomplishment. Written as an elegy, it was intended to be a tribute to his mother, and in it Ginsberg recounted their relationship ...

survive. The most famous work was Aetia (Causes). An elegy in four books, the poem explains the legendary origin of obscure customs, festivals, and names ...

Gray's [http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=elcc Elegy] is an odd case of poetry with latent political ideas: :Full many a ...

music during that period: he set to music an elegy written by the Tamil poet laureate Kannadasan for Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister. ...

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, an elegy to his late brother. The work described their 1839 trip to the White Mountains. When the book failed ...

been conceived.Roger Scruton, England: An Elegy (London: Pimlico, 2001, ISBN ... * England: An Elegy (2001) * The West and the Rest: Globalisation and ...

*1951 Elegy - directed by Kajiro Yamamoto *1951 The Idiot - directed by Akira Kurosawa *1951 Pirates - directed by Hiroshi Inagaki ...

The greatest work of this period is, without a doubt, the short elegy “Lycidas,” written by Milton in memory of his friend Edward King who ...

The play ends with the Prince's brief elegy for the lovers. The Capulets ... in Mercutio's Queen Mab speech, and an elegy by Paris. Shakespeare also ...

read an excerpt from Percy Bysshe Shelley's elegy Adonais and released thousands of butterflies in memory of Jones. The release of Let It ...

tribute to her came in Thomas Chaloner's Elegy, published in 1579. Here she is peerless in her learning and beauty, comparable only with Socrates ...

org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=elcc Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard] (1750) set off a new craze for poetry of melancholy reflection. It ...

to have an inspirational tone, whereas elegy and tragedy are meant to ... rules that govern the construction of an elegy to the highly formalized ...

highly analytical prose. Consider this moving elegy, entitled "To a Minor Poet of a Greek Anthology," included in one of Borges' earlier ...

attend. Hunter, overcome by grief, submitted an elegy written in the style of the Duino Elegies which he had studied years before in the late 1980s ...

century. Their concentration on the ritha or elegy suggests that this was a form designated for women to use. A later poetess Walladah, Umawi princess ...

Gododdin written in Brythonic (Old Welsh) and the Elegy for St Columba by Dallan Forgaill written in Middle Irish. Vita Columbae by Adomnán, the ninth ...

or didactic), "Marsia" (an elegy traditionally meant to commemorate the martyrdom of Hazrat Imam Hussain Alla hiss salam, grandson ...

instance, some of the authors of the film River Elegy (He Shang) were arrested, and some of the authors fled Mainland China. Gifford concluded that "China ...

* 1978: Robert Lowell: A Memorial Address and an Elegy, Faber & Faber * 1978: The Makings of a Music, University of Liverpool * 1978: After ...