| Description |
xv, 358 pages : facsimiles ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
The problem -- The funeral elegy and the Cavaliers -- The funeral elegy and the Puritans -- The funeral elegy in liturgic use -- The funeral elegy in the reign of Charles II -- The funeral elegy in the American colonies -- The funeral elegy and the neo-classical compromise -- The funeral elegy in Scotland -- The funeral elegy in the reign of Queen Anne -- The funeral elegy in the reign of George I -- The funeral elegy and the rise of English romanticism -- Appendix A : notes on the symbolic use of the willow -- Appendix B : notes on the funeral elegy and the poetry of Robert Burns |
| Notes |
A companion volume to the author's A century of broadside elegies, 1928 |
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Reprint of the 1929 ed |
| Bibliography |
Bibliographical footnotes and index |
| Subject |
Elegiac poetry, English -- History and criticism.
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Romanticism -- Great Britain.
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| LC no. |
67030902 |
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