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The Fettered and the Flea: A New Poem by Edmund Waller☆
Abstract This contribution explores for the first time a 22‐line poem in a British Library manuscript, ‘To a young lady that kept a flea chay’nd in a box’, which can be convincingly ascribed to Edmund Waller. Its most famous relative is Donne’s ‘The Flea’, but its ancestry differs.
Stuart Gillespie
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Human Being as an ethical being can be represented as an elegy. She creates herself by poeticizing her life. She endeavours to live her life like a poem. But her life is nothing but an elegy. Why is it so?
Ahmet İnam
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The King's Evil Without the King: The Royal Touch during the Interregnum
This article examines how far, and in what ways, the traditional belief that English monarchs could cure scrofula (the “King's Evil”) by royal touch survived during the eleven years of the Interregnum (1649–1660). Charles I had been executed and the monarchy abolished, and Charles II was in exile for the vast majority of this period. It might seem that
David L. Smith
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Though often assumed to be a product of traditional compositional practices comparable to those found in early Greek epic, archaic elegy has not previously been analyzed in similar detail with respect to such verse‐making techniques.
R. Scott Garner
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Genre of khaghaniâs elegies [PDF]
 Abstract Elegy in word is derived from Rasa-Yarso means weeping on dead people. It is also defined as enumerating deceased benefits and composing the poem about. Elegy is categorized into different parts as follows: 1. Courtier 2.
Alireza Shanazari
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„Uspokojona, uspokajająca... Elegia młodopolska jako ogniwo modernistycznych dziejów gatunku
This dissertation shows synthetically the Young Poland elegy together with a proposal, due to properties of aesthetics and subject matter of the typology of the genre in this epoch: 1.
Anna Czabanowska-Wróbel
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An Analysis of Figurative Language in Thomas Gray’s ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’
Figurative language is one of intrinsic elements of a poem. The use of figurative language is intended to beautify expressions or sentences. The purpose of this research was to describe the types of figurative languages used by Thomas Gray in his poem ...
Ruly Adha
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HISTORY AND THEORY AND PHILOLOGY NOW: TOGETHER IN THEORY
ABSTRACT In English‐speaking academe, philology has virtually disappeared as a defined discipline, although its traditional array of skills and techniques for reading, editing, and interpreting texts are indispensable to fields ranging from biblical studies through every language and literature and are central to historical research. Philology's status
Nancy Partner
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Lawnmower Poetry and the Poetry of Lawnmowers
Critical Quarterly, Volume 68, Issue 1, Page 4-42, April 2026.
Francesca Gardner
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