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LIST OF ELEGY WRITTEN IN LITERATURE


1.     “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”

Writer: Thomas Gray

Dedication: Death of Gray’s friend Richard West

Publication: 1751

2.     “To an Athlete Dying Young”

Writer: A.E. Housman

Dedication: An athlete who has died young

Publication: 1896

3.     “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”

Writer: Walt Whitman

Dedication: Death of President Abraham Lincoln

Publication: 1865

4.     “O Captain! My Captain!”

Writer: Walt Whitman

Dedication: Death of President Abraham Lincoln

Publication: 1865

5.     “In Memoriam A. H. H”

Writer: Alfred Tennyson

Dedication: Death of Tennyson’s friend Arthur Henry Hallam

Publication: 1850

6.     “Blake’s Purest Daughter”

Writer: Brian Patten

Dedication: Death of the poet Steve Smith

Publication: Not Found

7.     “Adonais”

Writer: Percy Bysshe Shelley

Dedication: Death of John Keats

Publication: 1821

8.     “Thyrsis”

Writer: Matthew Arnold

Dedication: Death of Arnold’s friend Arthur Hugh Clough

Publication: 1865

9.    “Astrophel”

Writer: Edmund Spenser

Dedication: Death of Sir Philip Sidney

Publication: 1595

10.  “In Memory of W. B. Yeats”

Writer: W. H. Auden

Dedication: Death of W. B. Yeats

Publication: 1939

11.  “On My First Sonne”

Writer: Ben Johnson

Dedication: Death of Johnson’s first son Benjamin

Publication: 1616

12.   “Rugby Chapel”

Writer: Matthew Arnold

Dedication: Death of Arnold’s father

Publication: 1856 or 1857 (not sure)

13.   “Memorial Verses”

Writer: Matthew Arnold

Dedication: Death of the Romantic poet William Wordsworth

Publication: 1850

14.   “Geist’s Grave”

Writer: Matthew Arnold

Dedication: Death of Arnold’s dog Geist

Publication: 1895

15.   “Wordsworth’s Grave”

Writer: William Watson

Dedication: Death of William Wordsworth

Publication: 1890

16.   “The Nymph Complaining for the Death of her Fawn”

Writer: Andrew Marvell

Dedication: Death of Marvell’s pet animal Fawn

Publication: 1642

17.   “Break, Break, Break”

Writer: Alfred Tennyson

Dedication: Tennyson expressed his loneliness after the loss of Arthur Henry Hallam

Publication: 1842

18.   “Lycidas”

Writer: John Milton

Dedication: Death of Milton’s college friend Edward King

Publication: 1638

19.   “Tears on the Death of Meliades”

Writer: William Drummond

Dedication: Death of Prince Henry and the Cyprus Grove

Publication: 1613 and 1616

20.   “A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General”

Writer: Jonathan Swift

Dedication: Death of the English General John Churchill

Publication: 1765

21.   “Elegy on Husayn”

Writer: Lynda Clarke

Dedication: Death of Clarke’s relative al-Husayn ibn

Publication: Not Found


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