"Lycidas" by John Milton for Edward King
1637
ELEGY
= a poem of reflective lamentation
Ancient Greek: Tytraerus
Ancient Romans:
Catullus, Ovid
PASTORAL ELEGY
= uses shepherds and nymphs
Ancient Greeks: Theocritus, Bion
GREATEST OF THE ENGLISH ELEGIES:
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"Lycidas" by John Milton for Edward King 1637 |
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Edward King
1612 - 1637
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"Adonais" by Percy Bysshe Shelley for John Keats 1821 |
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John Keats
1795 - 1821
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"In Memoriam" by Alfred Lord Tennyson for Arthur Hallam 1849 |
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Arthur Hallam
1811 - 1833
OTHER ELEGIES OF NOTE:
18 th century:
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"Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" by Thomas Gray for ? 1750 |
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19 th century:
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"When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" by Walt Whitman for Abraham Lincoln 1865 |
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