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Elegy
The term "'''elegy'''" was originally used for a type of Meter (poetry)|poetic meter (Elegiac metre), but is also used for a poem of mourning, from the Greek ''elegeia'' (derived from ''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.
Literary elegies
- Propertius' ''Elegies'' (author lived ca. 50 BCE – ca. 15 BCE)
- Jan Kochanowski's ''Laments (Treny)|Laments'' (1580)
- Chidiock Tichborne's ''Elegy'' (1586)
- Edmund Spenser's ''Astrophel'' (1595)
- 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)
- William Cullen Bryant's ''Thanatopsis'' (1817)
- Percy Bysshe Shelley's Adonais|''Adonaïs'' (1821)
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's ''Marienbad Elegy'' (1823)
- 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'' (author lived 1835–98)
- William Butler Yeats's "Easter 1916" (1916)
- Rainer Maria Rilke's ''Duino Elegies'' (1922)
- Virginia Woolf's ''To the Lighthouse'' (1927)
- Kamau Brathwaite's ''Kumina'' (author born 1930)
Musical elegies
- ''Aika (Elegy)'', Ken Hirai
- ''Death Hath Deprived Me'', Thomas Weelkes on the death of Thomas Morley
- ''December Elegy'', Tristania (band)|Tristania
- ''Elegia from the Adiemus Project'', Karl Jenkins
- ''Élégie, in memory of Dennis Brain'', Francis Poulenc|Poulenc
- ''Élégie, Op. 24|Élégie'', Gabriel Fauré
- ''Élégie, Op. 3, No. 1'', Sergei Rachmaninoff
- ''Élégie'', ballet by George Balanchine to Igor Stravinsky's eponymous solo for viola
- ''Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens''
- ''Elegy'', Lacuna Coil
- ''Elegy'', Alan Rawsthorne
- ''Elegy (EP)|Elegy'', Leaves' Eyes
- ''Elegy for Elsabet'', The Weakerthans
- ''Elegy for Gump Worsley'', The Weakerthans
- ''Elegy, for orchestra'', John Corigliano
- ''Elegy'', Jethro Tull (band), Stormwatch (album)
- ''Fire and Rain'', James Taylor
- ''For A Dancer'', Jackson Browne
- ''Goodbye My Lover'', James Blunt
- ''Goodbye Pork Pie Hat'', Charles Mingus
- ''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
- ''Stormwatch (album)|Elegy'', Jethro Tull (band)|Jethro Tull
- ''Tol'ko On Ne Vernulsya iz Boya (But He Didn't Return from Battle)'', Vladimir Vysotsky
- ''Ye Sacred Muses'', William Byrd on the death of Thomas Tallis
- ''An American Elegy'', Frank Ticheli
- ''Elegi'', Lars Winnerbäck
- ''Elégie'', Jules Massenet, based on the text by Louis Gallet
- ''Élégie'', Movement 3, Serenade, Tchaikovsky
- ''Elegy'', Frail Words Collapse, As I Lay Dying (band)|As I Lay Dying
- ''Elegy'', Inspection 12
- ''Even Braver, Even Stronger (An American Elegy)'', Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band
- ''Red (Elegy)'', Dave Carter
- ''God's Son'', Nas
- ''Elegy in D'', (for Contrabass), Giovanni Bottesini
elegy for simon corl, botanist
- ''Elegy of Emptiness'', a song in The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
- ''Is an Elegy'', Youngblood Brass Band
- "elegy"- Becoming The Archetype
Elegy in Painting
- ''Elegy to the Spanish Republic'', Robert Motherwell
- Elegía, William Adolphe Bouguereau
Elegy in Films
- Elegy (film) is a 2008 drama directed by Spanish director Isabel Coixet and based on a Phillip Roth novel, The Dying Animal.
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