Elegy
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An elegy is a mournful, melancholic or plaintive poem, especially a funeral song or a lament for the dead.
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[edit] History
The term "elegy" originally denoted a type of poetic meter (elegiac meter). It commonly describes a poem of mourning, from the Greek elegeia (ἐλεγεία) derived from elegos (ἔλεγος)—a reflection on the death of someone or on a sorrow generally. As such, it may be classified as a form of lyric poetry. An elegy can also reflect on something that seems strange or mysterious. Additionally, "elegy" (sometimes spelled elégie) may denote a type of musical work, usually of a sad or somber nature. The term "elegy" is not to be confused with "eulogy."
[edit] Literary elegies
- Propertius' Elegies (author lived ca. 50 BCE – ca. 15 BCE)
- Ovid (author lived 43 BCE – 18 CE)
- Jorge Manrique's Stanzas about the Death of His Father (1476)
- Jan Kochanowski's Laments (1580)
- Chidiock Tichborne's Elegy (1586)
- Edmund Spenser's Astrophel (1595)
- Ben Jonson's On My First Sonne (1616)
- John Milton's Lycidas (1637)
- Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1750)
- William Roscoe's Elegies (c. 1772)
- Charlotte Turner Smith's Elegiac Poems (1784)
- Franciszek Karpiński's Żale Sarmaty nad grobem Zygmunta Augusta (Laments of a Sarmatian over the Tomb of [King] Zygmunt August—a patriotic elegy)
- William Cullen Bryant's Thanatopsis (1817)
- Percy Bysshe Shelley's Adonaïs (1821)
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Marienbad Elegy (1823)
- Alexander Pushkin
- Evgeny Baratynsky's Autumn (1837)
- Alfred Tennyson's In Memoriam A.H.H. (1849)
- Walt Whitman's When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd (1865)
- Louis Gallet's Elégie (author lived 1835–98)
- William Butler Yeats's "Easter 1916" (1916)
- Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies (1922)
- Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse (1927)
- Władysław Broniewski
- Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński's Elegia... o [chłopcu polskim]" (Elegy... about [a Polish Boy])
- Kamau Brathwaite's Kumina (author born 1930)
- Walt Whitman's O Captain! My Captain!
[edit] Music
- A voice will call (2009 album), Elegy (South Africa)
- Aika (Elegy), Ken Hirai
- Death Hath Deprived Me, Thomas Weelkes on the death of Thomas Morley
- December Elegy, Tristania
- Elegia from the Adiemus Project, Karl Jenkins
- Élégie, in memory of Dennis Brain, Poulenc
- Élégie, Gabriel Fauré
- Élégie, Op. 3, No. 1, Sergei Rachmaninoff
- Élégie, ballet by George Balanchine to Igor Stravinsky's eponymous solo for viola
- Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens
- Elegy,As I Lay Dying
- Elegy, Lacuna Coil
- Elegy, Machine Head
- Elegy, Alan Rawsthorne
- Elegy, Leaves' Eyes
- Elegy for Elsabet, The Weakerthans
- Elegy for Gump Worsley, The Weakerthans
- Elegy, for orchestra, John Corigliano
- Elegy, Jethro Tull (band), Stormwatch (album)
- Fire and Rain, James Taylor
- For A Dancer, Jackson Browne
- Goodbye My Lover, James Blunt
- Goodbye Pork Pie Hat, Charles Mingus
- Lacrimosa, Regina Spektor
- Mort tu as navré de ton dart, Johannes Ockeghem on the death of Gilles Binchois
- Nymphes des bois, Josquin des Prez on the death of Johannes Ockeghem
- Elegy, Jethro Tull
- Tol'ko On Ne Vernulsya iz Boya (But He Didn't Return from Battle), Vladimir Vysotsky
- Two Choral Elegies Op.2, Lowell Liebermann
- Ye Sacred Muses, William Byrd on the death of Thomas Tallis
- An American Elegy, Frank Ticheli
- Elegy Suite, Chicago
- Elegi, Lars Winnerbäck
- Elégie, Jules Massenet, based on the text by Louis Gallet
- Élégie, Movement 3, Serenade, Tchaikovsky
- Elegy, Frail Words Collapse, As I Lay Dying
- Elegy, Inspection 12
- Even Braver, Even Stronger (An American Elegy), Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band
- Red (Elegy), Dave Carter
- God's Son, Nas
- Elegy in D, (for Contrabass), Giovanni Bottesini
- Elegy of Emptiness, a song in The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
- Is an Elegy, Youngblood Brass Band
- Summer Elegy, Richard Wright
- Elegie, Patti Smith, Horses
- Elegie, eF-eL, Veiligheid Eerste
- Elegy, Amorphis Album
- Elegy, Terminate Damnation, Becoming the Archetype
- Elegy for a Young American, Ronald Lo Presti
[edit] Painting
- Elegy to the Spanish Republic, Robert Motherwell
- Elegía, William Adolphe Bouguereau
- Sommerelegi (Summer Elegy), Poul Anker Bech
[edit] Film
- Elegy is a 2008 film by Spanish director Isabel Coixet, based on a Phillip Roth novel, The Dying Animal.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- Casey, Brian (2007). "Genres and Styles," in Funeral Music Genres: With a Stylistic/Topical Lexicon and Transcriptions for a Variety of Instrumental Ensembles. University Press, Inc..
- Cavitch, Max (2007). American Elegy: The Poetry of Mourning from the Puritans to Whitman. University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 081664893X.
- Ramazani, Jahan (1994). Poetry of Mourning: The Modern Elegy from Hardy to Heaney. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0226703401.
- Sacks, Peter (1987). The English Elegy: Studies in the Genre from Spenser to Yeats. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0801834716.
