10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EXEQUY»
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exequy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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The Golden & the Brazen World: Papers in Literature and ...
Though this way of accounting for the superior merit of "The Exequy" makes a
certain sense, biographers and literary historians can tell us absolutely nothing
about the relation of our poet to any of these three esteemed ladies. We possess
no ...
John Malcolm Wallace, 1985
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T.S. Eliot and Early Modern Literature
In preparation for that broadcast, he says, he had re-read his own 1921 essay on
'The Metaphysical Poets'; the essay quotes a passage from King's 'Exequy',
beginning with the couplet excerpted by Poe. Eliot there calls King's poem as one
of ...
3
The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature
Gleckner, R. F. King's The exequy. Explicator May 1954. - — King: a poet of his
age. Trans Wisconsin Acad of Science, Arts & Letters 45 1956. Crum, M. Notes
on the physical characterics of some manuscripts of poems of Donne and King.
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Poems That Make Grown Men Cry: 100 Men on the Words That ...
It borrows the form of Henry King's seventeenth-century lament for the death of
his young wife, “The Exequy.” With typical modesty, Porter substitutes “an” for “the
.” His four-beat lines, mostly end-stopped, have a funereal quality, heavy with ...
Anthony Holden, Ben Holden, 2014
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Eight Metaphysical Poets
Exequy. Accept thou Shrine of my dead Saint, Instead of Dirges this complaint;
And for sweet flowres to crown thy hearse, Receive a strew of weeping verse
From thy griev'd friend, whom thou might'st see 5 Quite melted into tears for thce.
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The Columbia Anthology of British Poetry
His most celebrated poem, "An Exequy," was written in memory of his wife Anne
Berkeley, who had married King in 1617 and, after bearing five children, died in
1624. AN EXEQUY, TO HIS MATCHLESS NEVER TO BE FORGOTTEN FRIEND
...
Carl Woodring, Carl Woodring James S. Shapiro, James Shapiro, 2013
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Grief and English Renaissance Elegy
Acceptance of grief is most pronounced in 'An Exequy', the only Renaissance
elegy which rivals 'Lycidas'. The poem has been deservedly admired for its
metaphysical conceits,“ but one of its triumphs is the coexistence of direct
expression of ...
8
Cathedrals Under Siege: Cathedrals in English Society, 1600–1700
His best-known and most moving poem is the "Exequy," a metaphysical
expression of the deep grief he felt upon the early death of his wife in 1624.96
T. S. Eliot called this "one of the finest poems of the age (a poem which could not
have been ...
It's a musical journey that you take with her.7 exequy Richter often composed
works in response to personal relationships. The twominute piano piece, Exequy
(1980), is one of those.8 Exequy was written in memory of my father, and
embodies ...
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The Broadview Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Verse
Exequy OED glosses the word as "funeral rites" and remarks that “an alleged
sense 'a funeral ode' has been wrongly inferred from the title of this poem." Friend
The word was commonly applied to a spouse at the time. Anne King died in ...
Alan Rudrum, Joseph Black, Holly Faith Nelson, 2001
5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EXEQUY»
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Hayden Carruth's poem Essay, chosen by Jonathan Franzen …
From An Exequy, by Peter Porter. Chosen by Ian McEwan. Though my mother was already two years dead. Dad kept her slippers warming by ... «The Australian, Jun 14»
Posthumous Love: Eros and the Afterlife in Renaissance England …
In what she calls her “limit cases”, she considers Henry King's bereft Exequy and Milton's “Methought I saw my late espousèd saint”. «Times Higher Education, May 14»
Poetry Week Friday: Grief in September
'The Exequy' is a long poem around the death of his wife (by suicide) and you can read the whole at Clive James'. For me, the middle part is ... «Crikey, Sep 11»
Peter Porter: 1929-2010
Like other poems in this collection, “An Exequy” attests to Porter's deeper affinities with the verse traditions of the English language, the roads ... «Oxonian Review, May 10»
Expat poet among best of a generation
Most notably An Exequy, in The Cost of Seriousness (1978), refers to this tragic death and his subsequent grief and guilt. Though I was first ... «The Australian, Apr 10»
