Placing Sorrow: A Study of the Pastoral Elegy Convention from Theocritus to Milton

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In this full-length critical study of a richly varied poetic convention, Ellen Lambert aims to define the particular literary experience common to those funeral laments we call pastoral elegies. She suggests that what distinguishes the pastoral elegist's vision of death from that of other funeral elegists is a setting rather than a doctrine: the special landscape in which he places his sorrow. The pastoral elegist brings to death the consolations...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0807870609

ISBN13:9780807870600

Release Date:April 1977

Publisher:University of North Carolina Press

Length:238 Pages

Weight:1.32 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections

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