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...K. A. Bruffee Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 FORM AND MEANING IN NABOKOV’S REAL LIFE OF SEBASTIAN KNIGHT AN EXAMPLE OF ELEGIAC ROMANCE By K. A. BRUFFEE The Real Lzfe ofsebastian Knight is one...

... 309 The central argument is stated coherently in a number of ways-il- lustratively, historically, theoretically (vis-a-vis other critics)-making it difficult to choose a decisive formulation. Among these definitions is the form a1 : Thus the narrative structure of elegiac...

... poem. Pope’s ability to sustain such a dual perspective is characteristic of the Augustan elegiac mode in general. Pope’s “Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady” (1717) is his fullest exploration of the contrary claims of art and life. The poem can be read as emblematic...

.... In classical Latin, the adjective evokes the various allusions to Leander in Ovid’s elegiac poetry. Modern Language Quarterly 67:1 (March 2006): 103–27. © 2006 University of Washington. 104 MLQ March 2006 are objects of irresistible attraction...

... of the classical German elegy contains specifications of meter (elegiac distich) and structure (encapsula- tion) as well as inner form (an ‘elegiac’ attitude produced by tension and culmi- nating in a resolution)” (p. 285). In addition, the setting of the poem-on a mountain-“is so conventional...

... and new hegemonies of linguistic authority. Given our “high expectations for what an ‘experimental’ art could contribute to social life” (Altieri 2006 : 98), we should reckon with the failure of those expectations for the American Left and modernism and for the elegiac impulse they share as a result...

... witness. For the poet Geoffrey Hill, who finds it barbarous that elegiac language should exult in itself, even when memorializing a death camp, the pastoral elegy’s power to heal and console may be deeply insulting. If a purgation of the Holocaust, 1 Todorov, ‘The Origin of Genres,” New...

... in the twelfth-century elegiac comedy and how he was able to evoke a reality which was distinctly more minute in its spiritual and material aspects. Her perceptive analysis of certain selections from the work lead her to the con- clusion that the Book of Good Love is “a mtulkjar book, composed...

... thoughts on literary form, and despite many critics’ discussions of the elegiac motif in Woolf’s novels, critics generally deny the presence of an elegiac structure in her fiction.* Even recent studies of genre in the modern novel or in Woolf’s own novels fail to include The Voyage Out...

... liberation. Elegiac pic- tures, one might call them, noting the editor’s epigraph from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “Elegiac VersesGreat is the art of begin- ning, but greater the art is of ending.”ll To be strictly accurate, Longfellow’spoem is titled “Elegiac Vmse,”but the wonder, of course...

... of interest in the early poems is their power to suggest pathways to the epic. One of these lines of development-a complex and sinuous one-marks Milton’s progressive attempts to master the difficulties of the poetic persona. It can be traced primarily through his early experiments in the elegiac...

... that apart from their common college and the Hobson verses there was nothing to connect him with Milton. Actually he was again associated with Milton on another and rather more impor- tant elegiac occasion, the death of Edward King. University of Illinois, 10 ...

... was already well under way in 1710, while certain gloomy remarks by Johnson in The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749), by Coleridge in “Dejection: An Ode” ( 1802), and by Wordsworth in his “Elegiac Stanzas” (1807) indicate how disorienting the discovery would be. Each of these four works registers...

.... 133 hypothesize that the French poets, even while imitating principally the rht?toriqueurs, chose the title “elegy” for these poems because the Latin elegiac poets had mixed poems of love and death under that rubric. What we are never told (Alice Hulubei’s work on the eclogue is included...

...). This little volume contained also a translation of the elegiac passage near the end of the Beowulf (lines 2231-2270). And now Professor Kennedy has undertaken a rendering of the whole of the majestic poem. I use the term “majestic” advisedly; repeated reading has long since brought home to me...

... a translation of the elegiac passage near the end of the Beowulf (lines 2231-2270). And now Professor Kennedy has undertaken a rendering of the whole of the majestic poem. I use the term “majestic” advisedly; repeated reading has long since brought home to me what a glorious thing it is, and I...

...” the poem “eclipse[s] and efface[s] all the elegiac poetry we know; all of Italian, all of Greek.” Milton’s poem “remains first, and must remain; its five opening lines are to me the most musical in all known realms of verse; there is nothing like them; and it is more various, more simple, more large...

... but an assessment of the idea of lyricality itself. There is, even in this most celebratory of early Middle English poems, a pervasive elegiac cast, and when we see the text anew in its manuscript contexts, we witness how compilations shape a sense of English literary history in the post-Conquest age. What...

..., Poems Referring to the Period of Old Age, and the Epitaphs and Elegiac Pieces. The two appendixes contain Wordsworth’s translation in heroic couplets of the Aeneid, Books 1-111 (together with three other Virgilian fragments totaling fifty-nine lines) ; and a group of thirty-six other...

... people’s immense enthusiasm for so promising a male heir to the throne and the Prince’s own interests and loyalties. The national shock of bitter disappointment occasioned by Henry’s untimely death is abundantly documented and leaves no room for doubt of its sincerity. This elegiac coda...