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The funeral elegy is in some important ways the quintessential English Renaissance genre. This book demonstrates how it developed into a kind of laboratory in which writers could put theories of composition into practice. The hospitality of elegy to different styles and modes together with its primary formal obligation to fit the poem decorously to the subject, gave a special value to ingenuity, to virtuosity. Melodious Tears charts the history of the elegy from the time in the mid-sixteenth century when it was exclusively the province of professional writers, the balladeers and chroniclers, up to the 1630s, by which time the fashion for the vernacular elegy had spread throughout the literate classes. Detailed studies of the works of major elegists, particularly Spenser, Sidney, Donne, and Milton are combined with full examination of the range and variety of elegies generated in response to the deaths of Sidney (1586), Queen Elizabeth I (1603), and Prince Henry (1612). A series of appendices contains texts of a number of elegies which survive only in manuscript.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Melodious Tears
• Subtitle: The English Funeral Elegy from Spenser to Milton
• Author: Dennis Kay
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 304
• EAN: 9780198117896
• ISBN: 0198117892
• ID: 04521524
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Weight: 488 g
• Dimensions: 147 × 295 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 09. August 1990

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