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English Elegy: Studies in the Genre from Spenser to Yeats
Paperback
Literary CriticismPoetry CriticismGeneral Poetry
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.
Now available in paperback, The English Elegy is an ambitious and humane book, an eloquent work that counters the tendency of much recent criticism to lose the connection between literary language and the needs from which that language arises.
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