ELEGY

'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 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. Today the elegy has evolved into the modern elegy.
Some notable elegies include:

★ Beowulf

★ The ''Elegies'' of Propertius

★ Thomas Gray's ''Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard''

★ Edmund Spenser's ''Astrophel''

★ John Milton's ''Lycidas''

★ Percy Bysshe Shelley's ''Adonaïs''

★ Evgeny Baratynsky's ''Autumn''

★ William Cullen Bryant's ''Thanatopsis''

★ Jan Kochanowski's ''Treny''

★ Walt Whitman's ''When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed''

★ Alfred Tennyson's ''In Memoriam''

★ Chidiock Tichborne's ''Elegy''

★ The Old English poems The Wanderer, Beowulf and The Seafarer

★ Charlotte Turner Smith's ''Elegiac Poems''

★ Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies

★ Kamau Brathwaite's ''Kumina''

★ ''Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens''
Musical elegies:

★ ''December Elegy'', Tristania

★ ''Elegi'', Lars Winnerbäck

★ ''An American Elegy, Frank Ticheli

★ ''Elegy'', Frail Words Collapse, As I Lay Dying

★ ''Élégie'', Gabriel Fauré

★ ''Élégie'', Sergei Rachmaninoff

★ ''Élégie, in memory of Dennis Brain'', Poulenc

★ ''Elegia from the Adiemus Project'', Karl Jenkins

★ ''Elegy'', Jethro Tull

★ ''Elegy'', Leaves' Eyes

★ ''Elegia'', New Order Low-Life, 1985

★ ''Fire and Rain'', James Taylor

★ ''For A Dancer'', Jackson Browne

★ ''Goodbye Pork Pie Hat'', Charles Mingus

★ ''I'll Be Missing You'', Puff Daddy f/112, Faith Evans from Album: No Way Out/Tribute to Notorious B/I.G. EP

★ ''Aika (Elegy) (哀歌 (エレジー), Ken Hirai

★ ''Elegy'', Inspection 12

★ ''"Elegy," Terminate Damnation, Becoming the Archetype

★ Elegy, Machine Head

★ ''Elegy for Elsabet, The Weakerthans
Elegy in Painting

★ Robert Motherwell, ''Elegy to the Spanish Republic''

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Further reading

See also

Further reading

Max Cavitch, ''American Elegy: The Poetry of Mourning from the Puritans to Whitman'' (University of Minnesota Press, 2007). ISBN 081664893X
Jahan Ramazani, ''Poetry of Mourning: The Modern Elegy fom Hardy to Heaney'' (University of Chicago Press, 1994) ISBN 0226703401.
Peter M. Sacks, ''The English Elegy: Studies in the Genre from Spenser to Yeats'' (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987) ISBN 0801834716

See also

★ elegiac couplet

★ ''Elegy'', album by John Zorn

★ ''Elegy'', album by Amorphis

★ ''Elegy'', album by The Nice