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Grief and English Renaissance Elegy - Softcover

Pigman III, G. W.

 
9780521034739: Grief and English Renaissance Elegy

Synopsis

Explores the changing attitude of sixteenth century poets towards funeral poems.

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For most of the sixteenth century, English poets were clearly anxious about the grief expressed in their funeral poems and often rebuked themselves for indulging in it, but towards the end of the century this defensiveness about mourning became less pressing and persistent.

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