English funerary elegies, 1620-1650
Though highly conventional, the funerary elegy provides poets - from the professional laureate to the functionally literate - with an opportunity to challenge political and religious leadership, patronage networks, and literary values. I reconstruct the elegy’s genealogy in classical and humanist rh...
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University of Cambridge
2003
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.596858 |