CSI Library: Poetry from around the world: Elegy

What is Elegy?

"In traditional English poetry, an elegy is often a melancholy poem that laments its subject’s death but ends in consolation. In the 18th century, the “elegiac stanza” emerged, though its use has not been exclusive to elegies. Elegiac stanza is a quatrain with the rhyme scheme ABAB and written in iambic pentameter". From Poetry Foundation

Resource of Elegy

A Companion to Roman Love Elegy by Barbara K. Gold (Editor)
ISBN: 1118241169
Publication Date: 2012-03-20
A Companion to Roman Love Elegy is the first comprehensive work dedicated solely to the study of love elegy. The genre is explored through 33 original essays that offer new and innovative approaches to specific elegists and the discipline as a whole.
Figuring Grief: Gallant, Munro, and the Poetics of Elegy by Karen Smythe
ISBN: 1282856111
Publication Date: 1992-01-01
Drawing on genre and narratological theory, she outlines the development of the "fiction-elegy" as a sub-genre and suggests that the modernist writings of Woolf and Joyce are paradigmatic examples of the form. Figuring Grief offers new readings of specific works and suggests that new ways of reading are both demanded and rewarded by a poetics of elegy.
Subjecting Verses by Paul Allen Miller
ISBN: 9781282087804
Publication Date: 2009-01-01
The elegy flared into existence, commanded the cultural stage for several decades, then went extinct. This book accounts for the swift rise and sudden decline of a genre whose life span was incredibly brief relative to its impact. Examining every major poet from Catullus to Ovid, "Subjecting Verses" presents the first comprehensive history of Latin erotic elegy since Georg Luck's.
Studies in Greek Elegy and Iambus by Martin L. West
ISBN: 9783110833188
Publication Date: 2011-05-02