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| Title: | Women's Names in the English Renaissance Elegy |
| Contributor: | The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives |
| Author: | Dorothy E. Litt |
| Description: | The funeral elegy of the English Renaissance has great onomastic interest; as a literary genre it is primarily an eponymous poem whose hero is the dead person being celebrated. The name, moreover, figures in the poet's attempt to participate in a triadic process whereby as the body is buried in the ground the soul progresses toward heaven and the name of the dead subject is immortalized. John Donne notes this process in "The first Anniversary": Verse hath a middle nature: heauen keeps soules, The graue keeps bodies, verse the fame enroules. (Manley 81.473-74) Nicholas Grimald, in an elegy for his mother, asserts that poetry has a higher role, in preserving the name: costly tomb, areard with curious art. But waylful verse, and doolful song accept. By verse, the names of auncient peres be kept. (Tottel1.113.18, 21-22) |
| URI: | https://www.amad.org/jspui/handle/123456789/82513 |
| Other Identifier: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.679.2329 http://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article%3D1014%26context%3Dlos |
| AMAD ID: | 673581 |
| Appears in Collections: | BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) General history of Europe |
