{"product_id":"english-elegy-studies-in-the-genre-from-spenser-to-yeats-paperback","title":"English Elegy: Studies in the Genre from Spenser to Yeats - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePeter M. Sacks\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Christian Gauss Award from the Phi Beta Kappa Society\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeter Sacks explores the functions as well as the forms of convention in a book that is both an interpretive study of a genre and a series of close readings of individual poems. Moving from Spenser's \"Astrophel\" of 1595 to Yeats's \"In Memory of Major Robert Gregory\" of 1918, Sacks examines such elegiac motifs and conventions as the use of pastoral contexts, the employment of repetition and refrains, sudden outbursts of vengeful anger, and assertions of deflected sexual power. These and other elements of the elegy, he argues, are more than mere features of a conventionalized aesthetic design, they emerge as elements in the performance of the task of mourning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow available in paperback, \u003ci\u003eThe English Elegy\u003c\/i\u003e is an ambitious and humane book, an eloquent work that counters the tendency of much recent criticism to lose the connection between literary language and the needs from which that language arises.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter M. Sacks\u003c\/b\u003e is an associate professor in the Writing Seminars and the Department of English at the Johns Hopkins University. He is also the author of \u003ci\u003eIn These Mountains\u003c\/i\u003e, a book of poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 392\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.97 x 9.26 x 6.03 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 19, 1987\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52702578835763,"sku":"9780801834714","price":71.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/TTlYczY0VENjWXRDbk1YU2I2WUNyUT09.webp?v=1763312379","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/english-elegy-studies-in-the-genre-from-spenser-to-yeats-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}