For other uses, see Elegy (disambiguation).
The term "elegy" was originally used for a type of poetic metre (Elegiac metre), but is also used for a poem of mourning, from the Greek elegos, a reflection on the death of someone or on a sorrow generally - which is a form of lyric poetry. In Poetry, the meter or metre is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse. Elegiac refers either to those compositions that are like elegies or to a specific poetic meter used in Classical elegies An elegy can also reflect on something which seems strange or mysterious to the author. In addition, an elegy (sometimes spelled elegíe) may be a type of musical work, usually in a sad and somber attitude. It is not to be confused with a eulogy. A eulogy is a speech or writing in Praise of a person or thing
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Literary elegies
- Propertius' Elegies
- Jan Kochanowski's Laments (1580)
- Edmund Spenser's Astrophel (1595)
- Chidiock Tichborne's Elegy (1586)
- Ben Jonson's On My First Sonne (1616)
- John Milton's Lycidas (1637)
- Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1750)
- Charlotte Turner Smith's Elegiac Poems (1784)
- Percy Bysshe Shelley's Adonaïs (1821)
- William Cullen Bryant's Thanatopsis (1817)
- Evgeny Baratynsky's Autumn (1837)
- Alfred Tennyson's In Memoriam A.H.H. (1849)
- Walt Whitman's When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd (1865)
- Louis Gallet's Elégie
- Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies (1922)
- Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse (1927)
- Kamau Brathwaite's Kumina
Musical elegies
- Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens
- Continuo lacrimas, Jacob van Vaet on the death of Jacob Clemens non Papa
- Death Hath Deprived Me, Thomas Weelkes on the death of Thomas Morley
- December Elegy, Tristania
- Elegi, Lars Winnerbäck
- An American Elegy, Frank Ticheli
- Even Braver, Even Stronger (An American Elegy), Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band
- Elegy, Frail Words Collapse, As I Lay Dying
- Elegy, for orchestra, John Corigliano
- Élégie, Gabriel Fauré
- Élégie, Sergei Rachmaninoff
- Elégie, Jules Massenet, based on the text by Louis Gallet
- Élégie, in memory of Dennis Brain, Poulenc
- Elegia from the Adiemus Project, Karl Jenkins
- Elegy, Jethro Tull
- Elegy, Leaves' Eyes
- Fire and Rain, James Taylor
- Élégie, Movement 3, Serenade, Tchaikovsky
- For A Dancer, Jackson Browne
- Goodbye My Lover, James Blunt
- Goodbye Pork Pie Hat, Charles Mingus
- Aika (Elegy), Ken Hirai
- Elegy, Inspection 12
- Elegy for Elsabet, The Weakerthans
- Elegy for Gump Worsley, The Weakerthans
- Lacrimosa, Regina Spektor
- Mort tu as navré de ton dart, Johannes Ockeghem on the death of Gilles Binchois
- Nymphes des bois, Josquin des Prez on the death of Johannes Ockeghem
- Red (Elegy), Dave Carter
- Ye Sacred Muses, William Byrd on the death of Thomas Tallis
- Clairvoyant Elegy, Bladiator & The Orichalcon: on the OC ReMix website, part of the Final Doom remixes. Sextus Aurelius Propertius was a Latin elegiac poet born around 50-45 BCE in Mevania (although other cities in the region of Umbria claim Life Kochanowski was born at Sycyna, near Radom, Poland. Little is known of his early education The Laments (also Lamentations or Threnodies; Treny are a series of nineteen threnodies ( elegies) by Edmund Spenser (c 1552 &ndash 13 January, 1599) was an important English Poet and Poet Laureate best known for The Chidiock (Charles Tichborne (1558&ndash September 20, 1586) is remembered as an English conspirator and Poet. Benjamin Jonson ( c 11 June 1572 &ndash 6 August 1637) was an English Renaissance Dramatist John Milton ( 9 December, 1608 – 8 November, 1674) was an English Poet, Prose Polemicist and "Lycidas" is a poem by John Milton, written in 1637 as a Pastoral Elegy, first appearing in a 1638 collection of elegies entitled Thomas Gray ( December 26, 1716 – July 30, 1771) was an English Poet, classical scholar and professor at Cambridge Charlotte Turner Smith (4 May 1749 - 28 October 1806 was an English Poet and Novelist whose works have been credited with influencing Jane Austen Percy Bysshe Shelley (August 4 1792 – July 8 1822 ˈpɝːsɪ ˈbɪʃ ˈʃɛlɪ was one of the major English Romantic poets and is widely considered to be among Adonaïs ( Adonaies) (/ædoʊˈneɪɪs/is a pastoral Elegy written by Percy Bysshe Shelley for John Keats in 1821 and widely regarded William Cullen Bryant (November 3 1794 - June 12 1878 was an American romantic poet, journalist and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post. This article is about the poem For the band see Thanatopsis (band. Evgeny Abramovich Baratynsky (Russian Евгений Абрамович Баратынский — July 11, 1844) was lauded by Alexander Pushkin as Alfred Tennyson 1st Baron Tennyson (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892 was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom and remains one of the most popular English poets In Memoriam AHH is a long Poem by the English Poet Alfred Lord Tennyson, completed in 1849 Walter Whitman (May 31 1819 &ndash March 26 1892 was an American poet, Essayist journalist, and humanist. When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd is an Elegy written by Walt Whitman shortly after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865 Louis Gallet (1835&ndash1898 was an inexhaustible French writer of operatic librettos plays romances memoirs pamphlets and innumerable articles who is remembered above all Rainer Maria Rilke (also Rainer Maria von Rilke (4 December 1875 &ndash 29 December 1926 is considered one of the German language 's greatest 20th century Poets The Duino Elegies ( German Duineser Elegien) are a set of ten elegies written in German by the Poet Rainer Maria Rilke from (Adeline Virginia Woolf (née Stephen; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941 was an English Novelist and Essayist, regarded as one of the foremost To the Lighthouse ( 5 May 1927) is a novel by Virginia Woolf. Edward Kamau Brathwaite (born May 11, 1930) is one of the major voices in the Caribbean literary canon Elegies For Angels Punks and Raging Queens is a Song cycle with music by Janet Hood and lyrics and additional text by Bill Russell. Jacobus Clemens non Papa (also Jacques Clément or Jacob Clemens non Papa) (c Thomas Weelkes (baptised 25 October 1576 &ndash buried 1 December 1623 was an English Composer and organist. Thomas Morley (1557 or 1558 &ndash October 1602 was an English Composer, theorist, editor and organist of the Renaissance, and the Tristania is Gothic metal band from Norway, formed in the end of 1996 by Morten Veland, Einar Moen and Kenneth Olsson. 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History Fourteen-year-old Robert Reid (vocals thirteen-year-old Dan McLintock (guitar The Weakerthans are an award-winning four-piece (and sometimes six-piece Canadian Indie rock band that blends Punk rock with Folk rock. Lorne John "Gump" Worsley ( May 14, 1929 in Montreal Quebec – January 26, 2007, in Beloeil Quebec) was a professional The Weakerthans are an award-winning four-piece (and sometimes six-piece Canadian Indie rock band that blends Punk rock with Folk rock. Regina Spektor (Регина Спектор born February 18, 1980) is a Soviet -born Jewish- American Singer-songwriter and Johannes Ockeghem (also Jean de; surname Okeghem, Ogkegum, Okchem, Hocquegam, Ockegham; other variant spellings are also Gilles Binchois, also known as Gilles de Binche or Gilles de Bins (c Nymphes des bois, also known as La Deploration de Johannes Ockeghem is a lament composed by Josquin des Prez on the occasion of the death of his predecessor Johannes Ockeghem Josquin des Prez (c 1450 to 1455 &ndash August 27 1521 often referred to simply as Josquin, was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance. Johannes Ockeghem (also Jean de; surname Okeghem, Ogkegum, Okchem, Hocquegam, Ockegham; other variant spellings are also Dave Carter ( August 13, 1952 - July 19, 2002) was an American folk singer and songwriter who self-described his style Ye Sacred Muses is William Byrd 's Musical Elegy on the death of his colleague and sometime mentor Thomas Tallis. William Byrd (c 1540 &ndash 4 July 1623 was an English Composer of the Renaissance. Thomas Tallis (c 1505 &ndash 23 November 1585) was an English Composer. OverClocked ReMix, also known as OC ReMix and OCR, is an Non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and tribute of Video game music Final Doom is a First-person shooter Computer game that uses the game engine items and characters from Doom II.
Elegy in Painting
- Elegy to the Spanish Republic, Robert Motherwell
- Elegía, William Adolphe Bouguereau
Further reading
Cavitch, Max (2007). Robert Motherwell ( January 24, 1915 – July 16, 1991) was an American abstract expressionist painter and American Elegy: The Poetry of Mourning from the Puritans to Whitman. University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 081664893X.
Ramazani, Jahan (1994). Poetry of Mourning: The Modern Elegy fom Hardy to Heaney. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0226703401.
Sacks, Peter (1987). The English Elegy: Studies in the Genre from Spenser to Yeats. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0801834716.
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