{"product_id":"the-english-elegy-studies-in-the-genre-from-spenser-to-yeats-9780801834714","title":"The English Elegy: Studies in the Genre from Spenser to Yeats","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe English Elegy: Studies in the Genre from Spenser to Yeats\u003c\/strong\u003e by Sacks, Prof Peter M. M.. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780801834714.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Christian Gauss Award from the Phi Beta Kappa Society\nPeter Sacks explores the functions as well as the forms of convention in a book that is both an interpretive study of a genre and a series of close readings of individual poems. Moving from Spensers \"Astrophel\" of 1595 to Yeatss \"In Memory of Major Robert Gregory\" of 1918, Sacks examines such elegiac motifs and conventions as the use of pastoral contexts, the employment of repetition and refrains, sudden outbursts of vengeful anger, and assertions of deflected sexual power. These and other elements of the elegy, he argues, are more than mere features of a conventionalized aesthetic design, they emerge as elements in the performance of the task of mourning.\nNow available in paperback, The English Elegy is an ambitious and humane book, an eloquent work that counters the tendency of much recent criticism to lose the connection between literary language and the needs from which that language arises.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45255973896245,"sku":"ByrdShop_0801834716","price":31.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780801834714_1de4a41c-b813-43df-837e-cd641565cf8f.jpg?v=1779935115","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-english-elegy-studies-in-the-genre-from-spenser-to-yeats-9780801834714","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}