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English Elegy : Studies in the Genre from Spenser to Yeats by Peter M. Sacks (1985, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherJohns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-100801832543
ISBN-139780801832543
eBay Product ID (ePID)888650
Product Key Features
Number of Pages392 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameEnglish Elegy : Studies in the Genre from Spenser to Yeats
SubjectPoetry, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year1985
TypeTextbook
AuthorPeter M. Sacks
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight23.5 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN84-023381
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition19
Reviews"Sacks's careful readings, full of suggestive and learned observations ranging from the lexical to the mythic, give this booka cumulative effect that is almost as moving as the elegies themselves."-- Journal of Modern Literature.
Dewey Decimal821/.04
SynopsisPeter 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. Book jacket.
LC Classification NumberPR509.E4
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