{"product_id":"elegies-laments","title":"Elegies \u0026 Laments","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePoetic tributes to the dead\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRead by Richard Mitchley, Sean Barrett, Laurel Lefkow(Unabridged: 2hrs 15mins)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFeaturing stories by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas Chatterton, Edna St Vincent Millay, John Clare, Wilfred Owen, H P Lovecraft, Robert Burns, Francis Ledwidge, Radclyffe Hall, Alexander Pope, Alice Meynell, Ben Jonson, Anne Wharton \u0026amp; many more\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eIn these more modern time perhaps our first thoughts of an Elegy or a Lament is for someone’s passing. Wreathed in grief and death we think of a headstone on a silent grave and the memories that shelter within our hearts, slowly receding from one generation to the next, as an often lonely voice extols the virtues and traits of the one who has passed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut these two very early forms of poetry, dating back to at least Ovid and probably further, are also surprising in their lyrical touch. These are not just mournful and sad but also whimsical or rich with celebration and tribute as they journey through joy, laughter, love, tears and comfort.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOur Classic Poets, who have specifically chosen to include the form in the title of their work, include the likes of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas Chatterton, Aphra Behn, Rainer Maria Rilke, Radclyffe Hall and many others of equal measure are always surprising in their views, their analysis and their sharing of words and thoughts, offering feelings that mirror our own and provide a balm of many hues for our wounded and tender souls.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1 - Elegies and Laments - An Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2 - Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3 - The Lament of Swordy Well by John Clare\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4 - An Elegy on a Pile of Ruins by John Cunningham\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e5 - Lament by Rainer Maria Rilke\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e6 - Elegy - Supposed to Be Written in Barnet Churchyard by George Townsend\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e7 - Elegy by Thomas Chatterton\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8 - A Lament by Radclyffe Hall\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e9 - An Elegy by Ben Jonson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e10 - Laeta - A Lament by HP Lovecraft\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e11 - Angellica's Lament by Aphra Behn\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e12 - Amores - Book I Elegy V - Corinna in an Afternoon by Ovid\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e13 - Morning Lament by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e14 - The Wind's Lament by John Morris-Jones\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e15 - Noon Day Elegiacs by T W Rolleston\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e16 - Midnight Lamentation by Harold Munro\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e17 - February. An Elegy by Thomas Chatterton\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e18 - Elegy in April and September by Wilfred Owen\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e19 - Elegy by Anna Seward\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e20 - Autumn Elegy by Leslie Norris\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e21 - Elegy on the Year 1788 by Robert Burns\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e22 - Elegy for an Enemy by Stephen Vincent Benet\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e23 - An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog by Oliver Goldsmith\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e24 - Pointless It Is To Lament by Narsinh Mehta\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e25 - To the Beloved Dead - A Lament by Alice Meynell\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e26 - The Slave's Lament by Benjamin Cutler Clark\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e27 - The Slaves Lament by Robert Burns\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e28 - A Lament by Katharine Tynan\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e29 - The Going of the Battery (Wives Lament November the 2nd 1899) by Thomas Hardy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e30 - Lament in 1915 by Harold Munro\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e31 - An Elegy on the Death of Llywelyn ab Gruyffyd by Gruffydd ap Yr Ynad Coch\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e32 - Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady by Alexander Pope\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e33 - Elegy on a Lady Whom Grief for the Death of Her Bethrothed Killed by Robert Seymour Bridges\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e34 - Lament by Edna St Vincent Millay\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e35 - The Mother's Lament For Her Infant by Lucretia Maria Davidson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e36 - Elegy on the Death of Mr Phillips by Thomas Chatterton\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e37 - Lament for the Poets, 1916 by Francis Ledwidge\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e38 - Lament for Thomas McDonagh by Francis Ledwidge\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e39 - Elegy on the Earl of Rochester by Anne Wharton\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e40 - Elegy on William Shakespeare by William Basse\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e41 - Adonais - An Elegy on the Death of John Keats by Percy Bysshe Shelley\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deadtree Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44161243709518,"sku":"AB-478004","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1194\/4786\/files\/elegies_a87e108f-21b4-46d0-b492-1ddc8c6ed995.jpg?v=1791189136","url":"https:\/\/www.deadtreepublishing.com\/products\/elegies-laments","provider":"Deadtree Publishing","version":"1.0","type":"link"}