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The Daring Muse Of Early Stuart Funeral Elegies, James Doelman
The Daring Muse Of Early Stuart Funeral Elegies, James Doelman
Brescia School of Humanities Publications
Funeral elegies of the early Stuart period are often marked by moments of “distraction” prompted by sorrow, and they venture into the realm of detraction as the poet turns against all that which lies beyond the dead figure who is at the heart of the elegy. While the funeral elegy in general was a copious and digressive form, exceptional deaths pressed elegists to stretch the usual rhetoric of grief and commemoration. This study offers a wide-ranging consideration of the period’s funeral elegies, in both manuscript and print, and by poets ranging from the canonical to the anonymous. It stands apart …
Early-Stuart Funeral Elegies From Manuscript, James Doelman
Early-Stuart Funeral Elegies From Manuscript, James Doelman
Brescia School of Humanities Publications
This document is a collection of English funeral elegies from the years 1603 to 1640, which survive in manuscript but were not published, either in their own time or more recently. It served as the basis for James Doelman, The Daring Muse of the Early Stuart Funeral Elegy (Manchester University Press, 2021).