Elegiac, the Glossary
The adjective elegiac has two possible meanings.[1]
Table of Contents
32 relations: Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Archilochus, Augustan poetry, Beowulf, Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics, Callimachus, Catullus, Charlotte Smith (writer), Dactylic hexameter, Dactylic pentameter, Elegiac couplet, Elegy, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, Epic poetry, Eulogy, Hellenistic period, Heraclitus of Halicarnassus, Hermesianax (poet), J. R. R. Tolkien, Lyrical Ballads, Ode, Ovid, Philitas of Cos, Pindar, Propertius, Quintilian, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Simonides of Ceos, Thomas Gray, Tibullus, William Wordsworth, 1751 in literature.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892), was an English poet.
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Archilochus
Archilochus (Ἀρχίλοχος Arkhílokhos; c. 680 – c. 645 BC) was a Greek lyric poet of the Archaic period from the island of Paros.
Augustan poetry
In Latin literature, Augustan poetry is the poetry that flourished during the reign of Caesar Augustus as Emperor of Rome, most notably including the works of Virgil, Horace, and Ovid.
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Beowulf
Beowulf (Bēowulf) is an Old English epic poem in the tradition of Germanic heroic legend consisting of 3,182 alliterative lines.
Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
"Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics" was a 1936 lecture given by J. R. R. Tolkien on literary criticism on the Old English heroic epic poem Beowulf.
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Callimachus
Callimachus was an ancient Greek poet, scholar and librarian who was active in Alexandria during the 3rd century BC.
Catullus
Gaius Valerius Catullus (84 – 54 BC), known as Catullus, was a Latin neoteric poet of the late Roman Republic.
Charlotte Smith (writer)
Charlotte Smith (née Turner; –) was an English novelist and poet of the School of Sensibility whose Elegiac Sonnets (1784) contributed to the revival of the form in England.
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Dactylic hexameter
Dactylic hexameter (also known as heroic hexameter and the meter of epic) is a form of meter or rhythmic scheme frequently used in Ancient Greek and Latin poetry.
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Dactylic pentameter
The dactylic pentameter is a verse-form which, in classical Greek and Latin poetry, follows a dactylic hexameter to make up an elegiac couplet.
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Elegiac couplet
The elegiac couplet is a poetic form used by Greek lyric poets for a variety of themes usually of smaller scale than the epic. Elegiac and elegiac couplet are poetic forms.
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Elegy
An elegy is a poem of serious reflection, and in English literature usually a lament for the dead. Elegiac and elegy are poetic forms.
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard is a poem by Thomas Gray, completed in 1750 and first published in 1751.
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Epic poetry
An epic poem, or simply an epic, is a lengthy narrative poem typically about the extraordinary deeds of extraordinary characters who, in dealings with gods or other superhuman forces, gave shape to the mortal universe for their descendants. Elegiac and epic poetry are poetic forms.
Eulogy
A eulogy (from εὐλογία, eulogia, Classical Greek, eu for "well" or "true", logia for "words" or "text", together for "praise") is a speech or writing in praise of a person, especially one who recently died or retired, or as a term of endearment.
Hellenistic period
In classical antiquity, the Hellenistic period covers the time in Mediterranean history after Classical Greece, between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the death of Cleopatra in 30 BC, which was followed by the ascendancy of the Roman Empire, as signified by the Battle of Actium in 31 BC and the Roman conquest of Ptolemaic Egypt the following year, which eliminated the last major Hellenistic kingdom.
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Heraclitus of Halicarnassus
Heraclitus of Halicarnassus (Herakleitos ho Halikarnasseus; 3rd century BC) was an elegiac poet of the Hellenistic period.
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Hermesianax (poet)
Hermesianax of Colophon (Ἑρμησιάναξ; gen.: Ἑρμησιάνακτος) was an Ancient Greek elegiac poet of the Hellenistic period, said to be a pupil of Philitas of Cos; the dates of his life and work are all but lost, but Philitas is supposed to have been born c.
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J. R. R. Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer and philologist.
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Lyrical Ballads
Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems is a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in 1798 and generally considered to have marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature.
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Ode
An ode (from ōidḗ) is a type of lyric poetry, with its origins in Ancient Greece. Elegiac and ode are poetic forms.
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Ovid
Publius Ovidius Naso (20 March 43 BC – AD 17/18), known in English as Ovid, was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus.
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Philitas of Cos
Philitas of Cos (Φιλίτας ὁ Κῷος, Philītas ho Kōos; –), sometimes spelled Philetas (Φιλήτας, Philētas; see Bibliography below), was a Greek scholar, poet and grammarian during the early Hellenistic period of ancient Greece.
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Pindar
Pindar (Πίνδαρος; Pindarus) was an Ancient Greek lyric poet from Thebes.
Propertius
Sextus Propertius was a Latin elegiac poet of the Augustan age.
Quintilian
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (35 – 100 AD) was a Roman educator and rhetorician born in Hispania, widely referred to in medieval schools of rhetoric and in Renaissance writing.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (21 October 177225 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian who was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets with his friend William Wordsworth.
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Simonides of Ceos
Simonides of Ceos (Σιμωνίδης ὁ Κεῖος; c. 556 – 468 BC) was a Greek lyric poet, born in Ioulis on Ceos.
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Thomas Gray
Thomas Gray (26 December 1716 – 30 July 1771) was an English poet, letter-writer, and classical scholar at Cambridge University, being a fellow first of Peterhouse then of Pembroke College.
Tibullus
Albius Tibullus (BC BC) was a Latin poet and writer of elegies.
William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth (7 April 177023 April 1850) was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798).
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1751 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1751.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elegiac
Also known as Elegaic, Elegiac poetry, Elegiacs.