“There is a certain lightness of tone in this poem that alleviates the heaviness of elegy.”

“The texts I shall consider are fascinating in themselves, but they also contribute to our understanding of modern elegy in general.”

“Before leaving the city, Henry composed a simple but attractive little piece in A minor entitled Cymric elegy, for three-part string orchestra.”

“When the affair was discovered, the love-struck elegist was arrested and thrown in jail.”

“Despite his Marxist trappings, he was really a bourgeois elegist, a prose poet singing of lost childhood realms.”

“If Rautavaara is a dreamer, Sallinen is an ironist, an elegist, a dealer in lyric fragments.”

“The earliest of the Greek elegists, Callinus and Tyrtaeus, use elegy to rouse a warlike spirit in sinking hearts.”

“Many elegists question whether they have the strength to accomplish their purpose, often calling for help from the muses or from a sympathetically grief-stricken nature.”

“In poems written entirely in hexameters the break is possibly not quite so rare as in elegiacs.”

“He employed the classical elegiacs and alcaics with ease, and was equally at home with trochaic and iambic lines.”

“Ars amatoria comprises three books of mock-didactic elegiacs on the art of seduction and intrigue.”

“That is, modern family elegies, though occasioned by death, do not seek compensation for that loss.”

“He was one of the most versatile of Roman poets, who wrote love poems, elegies, and satirical epigrams with equal success.”

“Except for writers of obituaries and elegies, no serious biographer judges his subject under the aspect of eternity.”