elegiac poetry

In their lyric and elegiac poetry there is much to admire.

The first examples of elegiac poetry in writing come from classical Greece.

He wrote elegiac poetry in two books and iambics.

It is one of the best extant specimens of Greek elegiac poetry.

He advises women to read elegiac poetry, learn to play games, sleep with people of different ages, flirt, and dissemble.

These two latters genres were the elegiac poetry and the iambic poetry.

Elegiac poetry originated in Ionia and always continued to be written in Ionic.

West however acknowledges that the whole collection is valuable since it represents a cross-section of elegiac poetry composed in the sixth and early fifth centuries.

In a noteworthy piece of elegiac poetry, the poet describes the lamentation of a mother in his own inimitable style.

Although the Suda states that Semonides composed elegy as well iambus, none of his elegiac poetry has survived.

Last week, it was Father Boyle on guitar; the week before that, Professor Ferrante in elegiac poetry.

The Tristia consist of five books of elegiac poetry composed by Ovid in exile in Tomis.

Elegiac poetry rejoices in two epithets, this is to say adjectives, (not swollen, or puffed-up, or affected adjectives).

Dactyls are the metrical foot of Greek elegiac poetry, which followed a line of dactylic hexameter with dactylic pentameter.

In fact more than half of the extant elegiac poetry of Greece before the Alexandrian period is included in the approximately 1,400 verses attributed to him.

L258N) Greek Elegiac Poetry: From the Seventh to the Fifth Centuries BC.

Both were written in ionic dialect, elegiac poetry was in elegiac couplets and iambic poems in iambic trimeter.

The offering of the elegiac poetry to the dead empress was not a ceremony normally attended by galactic delegates, with the exception of a very few high-ranking Cetagandan allies.

The dell was similar in design to the one where the haut had held the elegiac poetry recitations, only larger, a wide sloping bowl open to the artificial sky of the dome.

If the encyclopedia's information is to be trusted, it is probable that the first entry's "elegiac poetry in two books" refers to the Early History of Samos in the second.

In 1700, she possibly contributed a poem "Polminia: Of Rhetorick" to The Nine Muses, an elegiac poetry collection left on the grave of John Dryden.

The elegiac poetry of Watteau, the frenzied melodrama of Greuze and Chardin's sublime contentment with the humblest of still-life subjects - all these were alien to him.

They in turn are part of a larger cycle of heroic and elegiac poetry concerning early Powys and the Hen Ogledd known as Canu Llywarch Hen.

The sublime actress Eileen Heckart turned the disconnections of senility into elegiac poetry in "The Waverly Gallery," Kenneth Lonergan's exquisitely empathetic study of an elderly woman with Alzheimer's disease.

With regard to the form of the poem, Rutilius handles the elegiac couplet with great metrical purity and freedom, and betrays many signs of long study in the elegiac poetry of the Augustan era.