Grief and English Renaissance Elegy
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: December 14, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780521034739
Subjects: Poetry & poets: 16th to 18th centuries; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
First sentence: Consolations for death are as old as anything in literature, and the commonplaces of consolation are remarkably tenacious, as if those who use them are bent on proving there is nothing new under the sun.