Elegy
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The term "elegy" was originally used for a type of poetic metre (Elegiac metre), but is also used for a poem of mourning, from the Greek elegos, a reflection on the death of someone or on a sorrow generally - which is a form of lyric poetry. An elegy can also reflect on something which seems strange or mysterious to the author. In addition, an elegy (sometimes spelled elegíe) may be a type of musical work, usually in a sad and somber attitude. It is not to be confused with a eulogy.
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Literary elegies
- Propertius' Elegies
- Jan Kochanowski's Laments (1580)
- Edmund Spenser's Astrophel (1595)
- Chidiock Tichborne's Elegy (1586)
- Ben Jonson's On My First Sonne (1616)
- John Milton's Lycidas (1637)
- Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1750)
- Charlotte Turner Smith's Elegiac Poems (1784)
- Percy Bysshe Shelley's Adonaïs (1821)
- William Cullen Bryant's Thanatopsis (1817)
- 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
- Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies (1922)
- Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse (1927)
- Kamau Brathwaite's Kumina
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Musical elegies
- Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens
- Continuo lacrimas, Jacob van Vaet on the death of Jacob Clemens non Papa
- Death Hath Deprived Me, Thomas Weelkes on the death of Thomas Morley
- December Elegy, Tristania
- Elegi, Lars Winnerbäck
- An American Elegy, Frank Ticheli
- Even Braver, Even Stronger (An American Elegy), Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band
- Elegy, Frail Words Collapse, As I Lay Dying
- Élégie, Gabriel Fauré
- Élégie, Sergei Rachmaninoff
- Elégie, Jules Massenet, based on the text by Louis Gallet
- Élégie, in memory of Dennis Brain, Poulenc
- Elegia from the Adiemus Project, Karl Jenkins
- Elegy, Jethro Tull
- Elegy, Leaves' Eyes
- Fire and Rain, James Taylor
- Élégie, Movement 3, Serenade, Tchaikovsky
- For A Dancer, Jackson Browne
- Goodbye My Lover, James Blunt
- Goodbye Pork Pie Hat, Charles Mingus
- Aika (Elegy), Ken Hirai
- Elegy, Inspection 12
- Elegy for Elsabet, The Weakerthans
- Elegy for Gump Worsley, The Weakerthans
- 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
- Red (Elegy), Dave Carter
- Ye Sacred Muses, William Byrd on the death of Thomas Tallis
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Elegy in Painting
- Elegy to the Spanish Republic, Robert Motherwell
- Elegía, William Adolphe Bouguereau
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