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11el|e|gy — «EHL uhee», noun, plural gies. 1. a mournful or melancholy poem, usually a lament for the dead. Milton s Lycidas and Shelley s Adonais are elegies. 2. a poem written in elegiac verses. 3. Music. a mournful piece to be played or sung. ╂[<… …
12elegy — n. 1. Dirge, lament, epicedium, mournful song, funeral song. 2. Serious, meditative, or melancholy poem …
13Blanchard, Samuel Laman — (1804 1845) Born in Great Yarmouth but brought up in East London. When his father refused help for his Samuel to attend university, he became a clerk, a task he found distasteful, so he determined to try the stage. He contributed dramatic… …
14literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …
15English literature — Introduction the body of written works produced in the English language by inhabitants of the British Isles (including Ireland) from the 7th century to the present day. The major literatures written in English outside the British Isles are… …
16To Autumn — Illustration for To Autumn by William James Neatby, from A Day with Keats, 1899 To Autumn is a poem by English Romantic poet John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821). The work was composed on 19 September 1819 and publishe …
17Ode on Indolence — Tracing of an engraving of the Sosibios vase by John Keats. The figures of Ode on Indolence are described as simil …
18Ode on a Grecian Urn — Tracing of an engraving of the Sosibios vase by Keats Ode on a Grecian …
19Ode to a Nightingale — W. J. Neatby s illustration for Ode to a Nightingale Ode to a Nightingale is a poem by John Keats written in May 1819 in either the garden of the Spaniards Inn, Hampstead, or, as according to Keats friend Charles Armitage Brown, under a plum tree …
20Conversation poems — Samuel Taylor Coleridge portrayed by Washington Allston in 1814 The conversation poems are a group of eight poems composed by Samuel Taylor Coleridge …
