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English Elegy: Studies in the Genre from Spenser to Yeats

English Elegy: Studies in the Genre from Spenser to Yeats

Sacks, Peter M.

Paperback

Literary CriticismPoetry CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0801834716
ISBN13: 9780801834714
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: Feb 1 1987
Pages: 392
Weight: 1.24
Height: 0.97 Width: 6.03 Depth: 9.26
Language: English

Winner of the Christian Gauss Award from the Phi Beta Kappa Society

Peter Sacks explores the functions as well as the forms of convention in a book that is both an interpretive study of a genre and a series of close readings of individual poems. Moving from Spenser's Astrophel of 1595 to Yeats's In Memory of Major Robert Gregory of 1918, Sacks examines such elegiac motifs and conventions as the use of pastoral contexts, the employment of repetition and refrains, sudden outbursts of vengeful anger, and assertions of deflected sexual power. These and other elements of the elegy, he argues, are more than mere features of a conventionalized aesthetic design, they emerge as elements in the performance of the task of mourning.

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