Placing Sorrow: A Study of the Pastoral Elegy Convention from Theocritus to Milton

by Ellen Zetzel Lambert

In this full-length critical study of a richly varied poetic convention, Ellen Lambert aims to define the particular literary experience common to those funeral laments we call pastoral elegies. She suggests that what distinguishes the pastoral elegist's vision of death from that of other funeral elegists is a setting rather than a doctrine: the special landscape in which he places his sorrow. The pastoral elegist brings to death the consolations...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807870609
• ISBN13: 9780807870600
• Release Date: April 1977
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"