English Literature

. Elegy The word "elegy" comes from the Greek word for lament. The historical form is a melancholy poem that meditates on death through themes of war, nature, or the loss of a person. #Some famous elegies are: Ben Jonson, 'On My First Sonnet'. John Milton, 'Lycidas'. Katherine Philips, 'Epitaph'. Thomas Gray, 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard'. Percy Bysshe Shelley, ' Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats'. Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 'In Memoriam of A. H. ' W.H. Auden's 'In Memory of W.B. Yeats'. Walt Whitman's 'O Captain! My Captain! ' Christina Rossetti, 'A Dirge'. Alphonse de Lamartine, 'The Lake'.