The Final Elegy: the Consolation of the Classics in Old Age

by Richard Oliver Brooks

Old age is a time of losses- permanent, cumulative and irreversible. These losses include our loss of work in retirement, the eclipse of our past, our biological decline, dependency resulting from such decline, the foreshortening of our future, the abandonment of belief in our own improvement and our society's progress, and, of course, our death. This book views these losses as part of an elegy of old age. Elegy is a poetic or prose mourning of loss...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 166984045X
• ISBN13: 9781669840459
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Xlibris Us
• Length: 460 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"