{"product_id":"the-penguin-book-of-elegy-isbn-9780241269626","title":"The Penguin Book of Elegy","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe comprehensive guide to a deeply human tradition of memory, mourning, and consolation through poetry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Penguin Classic\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElegy is among the world's oldest forms of literature. Born in Ancient Greece, practiced by the Romans, revitalized by the poets of the Renaissance, and continuing down to the present day, it speaks eloquently and affectingly of the experience of loss and the yearning for consolation. It gives shape and meaning to memories too painful to contemplate, and answers our desire to fix in words what would otherwise slip our grasp. In \u003ci\u003eThe Penguin Book of Elegy\u003c\/i\u003e, Andrew Motion and Stephen Regan trace the history of this tradition, from its Classical roots in the work of Theocritus, Virgil, and Ovid down to modern compositions exploring personal tragedy and collective grief by such celebrated voices of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries as Dylan Thomas, Elizabeth Bishop, Terrance Hayes and Alice Oswald. The only comprehensive anthology of its kind in the English language, \u003ci\u003eThe Penguin Book of Elegy\u003c\/i\u003e is a profound and moving compendium of the fundamentally human urges to remember and honor the dead, and to give comfort to those who survive them.Contents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Note on the Text\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnonymous\u003cbr\u003eCock Robin\u003cbr\u003eThe Corpus Christi Carol\u003cbr\u003eThe Three Ravens\u003cbr\u003eSir Patrick Spens\u003cbr\u003eThe Wife of Usher’s Well\u003cbr\u003efrom \u003ci\u003ePearl\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDahn the Plug’ole\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRaymond Antrobus (1986–)\u003cbr\u003eSound Machine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMatthew Arnold (1822–1892)\u003cbr\u003eMemorial Verses\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eW. H. Auden (1907–1973)\u003cbr\u003eIn Memory of W. B. Yeats\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Barnes (1801–1886)\u003cbr\u003eThe Music o’ the Dead\u003cbr\u003eThe Wife a-Lost\u003cbr\u003eWoak Hill\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaul Batchelor (1977–)\u003cbr\u003ePit Ponies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHilaire Belloc (1870–1953)\u003cbr\u003eMatilda\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGwendolyn Bennett (1902–1981)\u003cbr\u003eEpitaph\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Berryman (1914–1972)\u003cbr\u003eDream Song 155\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe King James Bible (1611)\u003cbr\u003e2 Samuel 1\u003cbr\u003eEcclesiastes 3\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLaurence Binyon (1869–1943)\u003cbr\u003eFor the Fallen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBion (\u003ci\u003ec \u003c\/i\u003e. 120– 57 BCE)\u003cbr\u003eLament for Adonis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)\u003cbr\u003eNorth Haven\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Blake (1757–1827)\u003cbr\u003eNurse’s Song (\u003ci\u003eSongs of Innocence\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003eNurse’s Song (\u003ci\u003eSongs of Experience\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003eThe Chimney Sweeper (\u003ci\u003eSongs of Innocence\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003eThe Chimney Sweeper (\u003ci\u003eSongs of Experience\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMa lika Booker (1970–)\u003cbr\u003eDeath of an Overseer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElizabeth Boyd (\u003ci\u003ec \u003c\/i\u003e. 1710–1745)\u003cbr\u003eOn the Death of an Infant of Five Days Old\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnne Bradstreet (1612–1672)\u003cbr\u003eIn Memory of My Dear Grandchild, Elizabeth Bradstreet\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKa mau Brathwaite (1930–2020)\u003cbr\u003eElegy for Rosita\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRobert Bridges (1844–1930)\u003cbr\u003eOn a Dead Child\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCharlotte Brontë (1816–1855)\u003cbr\u003eOn the Death of Emily Jane Brontë\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEmily Brontë (1818–1848)\u003cbr\u003eRemembrance\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRupert Brooke (1887–1915)\u003cbr\u003eThe Soldier\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJericho Brown (1976–)\u003cbr\u003eThe Tradition\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Browne (\u003ci\u003ec. \u003c\/i\u003e1590–1645)\u003cbr\u003eOn the Countess Dowager of Pembroke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)\u003cbr\u003eFelicia Hemans\u003cbr\u003eL. E. L.’s Last Question\u003cbr\u003eMother and Poet\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBasil Bunting (1900–1985)\u003cbr\u003efrom \u003ci\u003eBriggflatts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRobert Burns (1759–1796)\u003cbr\u003eEpitaph for James Smith\u003cbr\u003eLament for James, Earl of Glencairn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGeorge Gordon, Lord Byron (1788–1824)\u003cbr\u003eStanzas for Music\u003cbr\u003e‘Remember thee! Remember thee!’\u003cbr\u003eOn This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year\u003cbr\u003eElegy on Thyrza\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChristian Campbell (1979–)\u003cbr\u003eRudical (Derek Bennett, killed by the police)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThomas Campion (1567–1620)\u003cbr\u003eO Come Quickly!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThomas Carew (\u003ci\u003ec \u003c\/i\u003e. 1595–1640)\u003cbr\u003eAn Elegy upon the Death of the Dean of Paul’s, Dr John Donne\u003cbr\u003eEpitaph for Maria Wentworth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCiaran Carson (1948–2019)\u003cbr\u003eIn Memory\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElizabeth Carter (1717–1806)\u003cbr\u003eOn the Death of Mrs Rowe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCatullus (\u003ci\u003ec \u003c\/i\u003e. 84– 54 BCE)\u003cbr\u003eElegy on the Sparrow\u003cbr\u003eCatullus 101\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCharles Causley (1917–2003)\u003cbr\u003eEden Rock\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eC. P. Cavafy (1863–1933)\u003cbr\u003eFor Ammonis, Who Died Aged 29 in 610\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJane Cave (1754–1812)\u003cbr\u003eAn Elegy on a Maiden Name\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaul Celan (1920–1970)\u003cbr\u003eDeathfugue\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmy Clampitt (1920–1994)\u003cbr\u003eA Procession at Candlemas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Clare (1793–1864)\u003cbr\u003eThe Lament of Swordy Well\u003cbr\u003eI Am\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLucille Clifton (1936–2010)\u003cbr\u003ethe lost baby poem\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSamuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)\u003cbr\u003eEpitaph\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTony Connor (1930–)\u003cbr\u003eElegy for Alfred Hubbard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbraham Cowley (1618–1667)\u003cbr\u003eOn the Death of Mr William Hervey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Cowper (1731–1800)\u003cbr\u003eEpitaph on a Hare\u003cbr\u003eThe Poplar Field\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHart Crane (1899–1932)\u003cbr\u003eAt Melville’s Tomb\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRichard Crashaw (1613–1649)\u003cbr\u003eA Hymn to the Name and Honour of the Admirable Saint Teresa\u003cbr\u003eAn Epitaph upon Husband and Wife\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCountee Cullen (1903–1946)\u003cbr\u003eColored Blues Singer\u003cbr\u003eThrenody for a Brown Girl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWalter de la Mare (1873–1956)\u003cbr\u003eFare Well\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eToi Derricotte (1941–)\u003cbr\u003eElegy for My Husband\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEmily Dickinson (1830–1886)\u003cbr\u003e‘Because I could not stop for Death’\u003cbr\u003e‘Safe in their Alabaster Chambers’\u003cbr\u003e‘I felt a Funeral, in my Brain’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMaura Dooley (1957–)\u003cbr\u003eI’ve Been Thinking a Lot About Heaven\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Donne (1572–1631)\u003cbr\u003eA Funeral Elegy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLord Alfred Douglas (1870–1945)\u003cbr\u003eThe Dead Poet\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKeith Douglas (1920–1944)\u003cbr\u003eSimplify Me When I’m Dead\u003cbr\u003eVergissmeinnicht\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Dryden (1631–1700)\u003cbr\u003eUpon the Death of the Lord Hastings\u003cbr\u003eTo the Memory of Mr Oldham\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906)\u003cbr\u003eA Death Song\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Dunbar (1459–1520)\u003cbr\u003eLament for the Makaris\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDouglas Dunn (1942–)\u003cbr\u003eThe Kaleidoscope\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLady Katherine Dyer (\u003ci\u003ec \u003c\/i\u003e. 1585–1654)\u003cbr\u003e‘My dearest dust could not thy hasty day’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eT. S. Eliot (1888–1965)\u003cbr\u003efrom \u003ci\u003eThe Waste Land \u003c\/i\u003e(Death by Water)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRalph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)\u003cbr\u003efrom Threnody\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVicki Feaver (1943–)\u003cbr\u003eGorilla\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCaleb Femi (1990–)\u003cbr\u003eThe Story of Damilola Taylor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJames Fenton (1949–)\u003cbr\u003eAt the Kerb\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSarah Louisa Forten (1814–1883)\u003cbr\u003eThe Grave of the Slave\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRobert Frost (1874–1963)\u003cbr\u003eNothing Gold Can Stay\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRobert Garioch (1909–1981)\u003cbr\u003eElegy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Gay (1685–1732)\u003cbr\u003eMy Own Epitaph\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAllen Ginsberg (1926–1997)\u003cbr\u003efrom \u003ci\u003eKaddish\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOliver Goldsmith (1728–1774)\u003cbr\u003eRetaliation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLorna Goodison (1947–)\u003cbr\u003eFor My Mother (May I Inherit Half Her Strength)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBarnabe Googe (1540–1594)\u003cbr\u003eAn Epytaphe of the Death of Nicolas Grimoald\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eW. S. Graham (1918–1986)\u003cbr\u003eLines on Roger Hilton’s Watch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRobert Graves (1895–1985)\u003cbr\u003eThe Untidy Man\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThomas Gray (1716–1771)\u003cbr\u003eOn the Death of Richard West\u003cbr\u003eElegy Written in a Country Churchyard\u003cbr\u003eOde on the Death of a Favourite Cat Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThom Gunn (1929–2004)\u003cbr\u003eLament\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIvor Gurney (1890–1937)\u003cbr\u003eTo His Love\u003cbr\u003eSong\u003cbr\u003eCotswold Ways\u003cbr\u003eStrange Hells\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThomas Hardy (1840–1928)\u003cbr\u003eDrummer Hodge\u003cbr\u003eThoughts of Phena\u003cbr\u003eA Singer Asleep\u003cbr\u003eThe Going\u003cbr\u003eThe Voice\u003cbr\u003eAt Castle Boterel\u003cbr\u003eAfter a Journey\u003cbr\u003eDuring Wind and Rain\u003cbr\u003eLying Awake\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTony Harrison (1937–)\u003cbr\u003eBook Ends\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTerrance Hayes (1971–)\u003cbr\u003eAmerican Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeamus Heaney (1939–2013)\u003cbr\u003eThe Strand at Lough Beg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFelicia Hemans (1793–1835)\u003cbr\u003eThe Grave of a Poetess\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1587–1648)\u003cbr\u003eElegy Over a Tomb\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGeorge Herbert (1593–1633)\u003cbr\u003eVirtue\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (1561–1621)\u003cbr\u003eIf Ever Hapless Woman Had a Cause\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRobert Herrick (1591–1674)\u003cbr\u003eUpon Himself\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGeoffrey Hill (1932–2016)\u003cbr\u003eSeptember Song\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichael Hofmann (1957–)\u003cbr\u003eFor Gert Hofmann, died 1 July 1993\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThomas Hood (1799–1845)\u003cbr\u003eI Remember, I Remember\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)\u003cbr\u003eBinsey Poplars\u003cbr\u003eSpring and Fall\u003cbr\u003eFelix Randal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHorace (67–8 BCE)\u003cbr\u003eOdes 3.30\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA. E. Housman (1859–1936)\u003cbr\u003eTo an Athlete Dying Young\u003cbr\u003e‘Is my team ploughing’\u003cbr\u003e‘Far in a western brookland’\u003cbr\u003eEpitaph on an Army of Mercenaries\u003cbr\u003e‘Crossing alone the nighted ferry’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHenry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517–1547)\u003cbr\u003eAn Excellent Epitaph of Sir Thomas Wyatt\u003cbr\u003e‘Norfolk sprung thee, Lambeth holds thee dead’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLangston Hughes (1902–1967)\u003cbr\u003eSilhouette\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTed Hughes (1930–1998)\u003cbr\u003eSheep\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLeigh Hunt (1784–1859)\u003cbr\u003eOn the Death of His Son Vincent\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMick Imlah (1956–2008)\u003cbr\u003eStephen Boyd (1957–95)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMajor Jackson (1968–)\u003cbr\u003eFerguson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLINTON Kwesi Johnson (1952–)\u003cbr\u003eReggae fi Dada\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSamuel Johnson (1709–1784)\u003cbr\u003eAn Epitaph on Claudy Phillips, a Musician\u003cbr\u003eOn the Death of Dr Robert Levet\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEbenezer Jones (1820–1860)\u003cbr\u003eThe Poet’s Death\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBen Jonson (1572–1637)\u003cbr\u003eEpitaphs\u003cbr\u003eTo the Memory of My Beloved, the Author Mr William Shakespeare\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJackie Kay (1961–)\u003cbr\u003eBurying My African Father\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Keats (1795–1821)\u003cbr\u003eWhen I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHenry King (1592–1669)\u003cbr\u003eExequy on His Wife\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRudyard Kipling (1865–1936)\u003cbr\u003eThe Appeal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYusef Komunyakaa (1947–)\u003cbr\u003eElegy for Thelonious\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCharles Lamb (1775–1834)\u003cbr\u003eThe Old Familiar Faces\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLetitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838)\u003cbr\u003eStanzas on the Death of Mrs Hemans\u003cbr\u003eFelicia Hemans\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWALTER SAVAGE Landor (1775–1864)\u003cbr\u003eRose Aylmer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePhilip Larkin (1922–1985)\u003cbr\u003eThe Explosion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrancis Ledwidge (1887–1917)\u003cbr\u003eThomas MacDonagh\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmy Levy (1861–1889)\u003cbr\u003eEpitaph\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHenry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)\u003cbr\u003eThe Cross of Snow\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichael Longley (1939–)\u003cbr\u003eWounds\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRobert Lowell (1917–1977)\u003cbr\u003eSailing Home from Rapallo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLucretius (\u003ci\u003ec \u003c\/i\u003e. 99–55 BCE)\u003cbr\u003efrom \u003ci\u003eOn the Nature of Things\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLouis MacNeice (1907–1963)\u003cbr\u003eThe Suicide\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDerek Mahon (1941–2020)\u003cbr\u003eA Disused Shed in Co. Wexford\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAndrew Marvell (1621–1678)\u003cbr\u003efrom A Poem upon the Death of His Late Highness the Lord Protector\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaula Meehan (1955–)\u003cbr\u003eChild Burial\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHerman Melville (1819–1891)\u003cbr\u003eMonody\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCharlotte Mew (1896–1928)\u003cbr\u003eThe Farmer’s Bride\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdna St Vincent Millay (1892–1950)\u003cbr\u003eBurial\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Milton (1608–1674)\u003cbr\u003eLycidas\u003cbr\u003e‘When I consider how my light is spent’\u003cbr\u003e‘Methought I saw my late espousèd saint’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarianne Moore (1887–1972)\u003cbr\u003eW. S. Landor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMoschus (\u003ci\u003efl\u003c\/i\u003e. 150 BCE)\u003cbr\u003eLament for Bion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAndrew Motion (1952–)\u003cbr\u003eSerenade\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaul Muldoon (1951–)\u003cbr\u003eIncantata\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLes Murray (1938–2019)\u003cbr\u003eMidsummer Ice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThomas Nashe (\u003ci\u003ec \u003c\/i\u003e. 1567–1601)\u003cbr\u003eAdieu, Farewell, Earth’s Bliss\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBernard O’Donoghue (1945–)\u003cbr\u003eThe Day I Outlived My Father\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrank O’ Hara (1926–1966)\u003cbr\u003eThe Day Lady Died\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSharon Olds (1942–)\u003cbr\u003eThe Exact Moment of His Death\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlice Oswald (1966–)\u003cbr\u003efrom \u003ci\u003eMemorial\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOvid (\u003ci\u003ec. \u003c\/i\u003e43 BCE–18 CE)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTristia \u003c\/i\u003e3.3\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWilfred Owen (1893–1918)\u003cbr\u003eAnthem for Doomed Youth\u003cbr\u003e‘I saw his round mouth’s crimson’\u003cbr\u003eFutility\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKatherine Philips (1632–1664)\u003cbr\u003eOn the Death of My First and Dearest Child, Hector Philips\u003cbr\u003e’Tis True, Our Life is But a Long Disease\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTom Pickard (1946–)\u003cbr\u003eSpring Tide\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSylvia Plath (1932–1963)\u003cbr\u003eElectra on Azalea Path\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlexander Pope (1688–1744)\u003cbr\u003eElegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady\u003cbr\u003eThree Epitaphs on John Hewet and Sarah Drew\u003cbr\u003eEpitaph on Sir Isaac Newton, in Westminster Abbey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePeter Porter (1929–2010)\u003cbr\u003eAn Exequy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEzra Pound (1885–1972)\u003cbr\u003efrom \u003ci\u003eHugh Selwyn Mauberley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePropertius (\u003ci\u003ec \u003c\/i\u003e. 50– 15 BCE)\u003cbr\u003efrom \u003ci\u003eThe Elegies \u003c\/i\u003e(2.28)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSir Walter Raleigh (\u003ci\u003ec \u003c\/i\u003e. 1554–1618)\u003cbr\u003e‘Even such is time’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHenrietta Cordelia Ray (1852–1916)\u003cbr\u003eToussaint L’Ouverture\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGareth Reeves (1947–)\u003cbr\u003eThe Great Fire\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChristopher Reid (1949–)\u003cbr\u003eA Scattering\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDenise Riley (1948–)\u003cbr\u003eA Part Song\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926)\u003cbr\u003eThe Ninth Elegy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdward Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)\u003cbr\u003eReuben Bright\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChristina Rossetti (1830–1894)\u003cbr\u003eSong\u003cbr\u003eRemember\u003cbr\u003eRest\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElizabeth Rowe (1674–1737)\u003cbr\u003eUpon the Death of Her Husband\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTadeusz Ró Żewicz (1921–2014)\u003cbr\u003eThe Survivor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSonia Sanchez (1934–)\u003cbr\u003efor our lady\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSiegfried Sassoon (1886–1967)\u003cbr\u003eSuicide in the Trenches\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnna Seward (1742–1809)\u003cbr\u003eAn Old Cat’s Dying Soliloquy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnne Sexton (1928–1974)\u003cbr\u003eThe Truth the Dead Know\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Shakespeare (1564–1616)\u003cbr\u003eSonnet 71\u003cbr\u003eSonnet 73\u003cbr\u003e‘When that I was’\u003cbr\u003e‘Fear no more the heat o’ the sun’\u003cbr\u003e‘Full fathom five’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePercy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)\u003cbr\u003eTo Wordsworth\u003cbr\u003efrom \u003ci\u003eAdonais\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJames Shirley (1596–1666)\u003cbr\u003eEpitaph on the Duke of Buckingham\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Skelton (1463–1529)\u003cbr\u003efrom Phillip Sparrow\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStevie Smith (1902–1971)\u003cbr\u003eScorpion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTracy K. Smith (1972–)\u003cbr\u003eWade in the Water\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLayli Long Soldier (1976–)\u003cbr\u003e38\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCharles Hamilton Sorley (1895–1915)\u003cbr\u003e‘When you see millions of the mouthless dead’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdmund Spenser (1552–1599)\u003cbr\u003eAstrophel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWallace Stevens (1879–1955)\u003cbr\u003eThe Emperor of Ice-Cream\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnne Stevenson (1933–2020)\u003cbr\u003eOrcop\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRobert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)\u003cbr\u003eA Martial Elegy for Some Lead Soldiers\u003cbr\u003eRequiem\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHannah Sullivan (1979–)\u003cbr\u003efrom The Sandpit After Rain\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJonathan Swift (1667–1745)\u003cbr\u003eA Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General\u003cbr\u003efrom Verses on the Death of Dr Swift\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlgernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909)\u003cbr\u003efrom \u003ci\u003eAve atque Vale\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Forsaken Garden\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892)\u003cbr\u003efrom \u003ci\u003eIn Memoriam\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5: I sometimes hold it half a sin . . .\u003cbr\u003e7: Dark house by which once more I stand . . .\u003cbr\u003e11: Calm is the morn without a sound . . .\u003cbr\u003e19: The Danube to the Severn gave . . .\u003cbr\u003e50: Be near me when my light is low . . .\u003cbr\u003e70: I cannot see the features right . . .\u003cbr\u003e91: When rosy plumelets tuft the larch . . .\u003cbr\u003e100: I climb the hill: from end to end . . .\u003cbr\u003e115: Now fades the last long streak of snow . . .\u003cbr\u003eCrossing the Bar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863)\u003cbr\u003eThe Sorrows of Werther\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTheocritus (\u003ci\u003ec \u003c\/i\u003e. 310– 250 BCE)\u003cbr\u003eIdyll 1 (Lament for Daphnis)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDylan Thomas (1914–1953)\u003cbr\u003eA Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London\u003cbr\u003e‘Do not go gentle into that good night’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdward Thomas (1878–1917)\u003cbr\u003eTears\u003cbr\u003eIn Memoriam (Easter, 1915)\u003cbr\u003eRain\u003cbr\u003eAs the Team’s Head-Brass\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChidiock Tichborne (1562–1586)\u003cbr\u003eElegy for Himself\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTomas Tranströmer (1931–2015)\u003cbr\u003eAfter Someone’s Death\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrederick Goddard Tuckerman (1821–1873)\u003cbr\u003e‘An upper chamber in a darkened house’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHenry Vaughan (1621–1695)\u003cbr\u003eThey Are all Gone into the World of Light!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVirgil (70–19 BCE)\u003cbr\u003efrom Eclogue 5 (The Death of Daphnis)\u003cbr\u003efrom \u003ci\u003eGeorgics \u003c\/i\u003eBook 4 (Orpheus and Eurydice)\u003cbr\u003efrom \u003ci\u003eThe Aeneid, \u003c\/i\u003eBook 2 (The Death of Priam)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDerek Walcott (1930–2017)\u003cbr\u003eSea Canes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMargaret Walker (1915–1998)\u003cbr\u003eFor Malcolm X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePhillis Wheatley (1753–1784)\u003cbr\u003eOn the Death of the Rev. Mr George Whitefield\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJames Monroe Whitfield (1822–1871)\u003cbr\u003eLines on the Death of John Quincy Adams\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWalt Whitman (1819–1892)\u003cbr\u003eO Captain! My Captain!\u003cbr\u003eVigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night\u003cbr\u003eWhen Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOscar Wilde (1854–1900)\u003cbr\u003eRequiescat\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHelen Maria Williams (1761–1827)\u003cbr\u003eElegy on a Young Thrush\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Carlos Williams (1883–1963)\u003cbr\u003eThe Last Words of My English Grandmother\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCharles Wolfe (1791–1823)\u003cbr\u003eThe Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Wordsworth (1770–1850)\u003cbr\u003eRemembrance of Collins\u003cbr\u003eOld Man Travelling\u003cbr\u003eWe Are Seven\u003cbr\u003eThere was a Boy\u003cbr\u003eThe Two April Mornings\u003cbr\u003e‘A slumber did my spirit seal’\u003cbr\u003e‘She dwelt among the untrodden ways’\u003cbr\u003e‘I travelled among unknown men’\u003cbr\u003eElegiac Stanzas\u003cbr\u003eElegiac Verses in Memory of My Brother, John Wordsworth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSir Henry Wotton (1568–1639)\u003cbr\u003eUpon the Death of Sir Albert Morton’s Wife\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKit Wright (1944–)\u003cbr\u003eThe Boys Bump-starting the Hearse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eW. B. Yeats (1865–1939)\u003cbr\u003eSeptember 1913\u003cbr\u003eTo a Shade\u003cbr\u003eThe Wild Swans at Coole\u003cbr\u003eIn Memory of Major Robert Gregory\u003cbr\u003eEaster 1916\u003cbr\u003eIn Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz\u003cbr\u003eBeautiful Lofty Things\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAndrew Young (1885–1971)\u003cbr\u003eA Dead Mole\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndex of First Lines\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndex of Titles\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eStephen Regan\u003c\/b\u003e's (Editor) books include \u003ci\u003eIrish Writing: An Anthology of Irish Literature in English 1789-1939 \u003c\/i\u003e(2004) and \u003ci\u003eThe Sonnet\u003c\/i\u003e (2019). He has taught at Ruskin College, Oxford; Royal Holloway, University of London; and Durham University, where he is Professor Emeritus. He is currently a Research Associate at the University of Melbourne. \u003cb\u003eAndrew Motion\u003c\/b\u003e's (Editor) most recent collection is \u003ci\u003eNew and Selected Poems 1977-2022\u003c\/i\u003e (2023). He was UK Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009, is co-founder of The Poetry Archive and Poetry by Heart, and since 2015 has lived in Baltimore, where he is Homewood Professor of the Arts at Johns Hopkins University.","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302717247717,"sku":"NP9780241269626","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780241269626.jpg?v=1767740909","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-penguin-book-of-elegy-isbn-9780241269626","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}