English Elegies (Classic Reprint)Fb&c Limited, 2018 - 284 من الصفحات Excerpt from English Elegies The legitimate range of the elegy is, ' however, not confined to the subjects qf Love'and Death. It includes all expressions of what may be one of the highest and most spiritual moods qf the human 'soul. There is no form of sorrow, from the gentle meditative melancholy qf Gray to the passionate outburst of some ardent Elizabethan spirit, of which it is not the natural expression. Indeed, the most famous elegiacs ever written are not those qf an unhappy lover or a bereaved friend, but qf_ an exile, crying for his home. Elegy begins, one may suppose, with what have always been its two special subjects, Love and Death and then it is an easy step from the longing for the absent mistress to the longing for the distant home and from that it is not a great advance. To the scientific definition I have quoted, which calls all poems elegies which describe any particular object as at once desirable and not present. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. |