2. Adonis
Subtitle : An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, Author of Endymion,
Hyperion, etc.
pastoral elegy.
3. Greatest Elegies in Eng. Literature:
Adonis – Shelly wrote for the death of Keats
Lycidas – Milton Wrote for the death of his drowned friend Edward King
Astrophel- Spenser Wrote for the death of Philip Sydney
In Memoriam- Tennyson wrote for the death of Arthur Henry Hallam
Thyrsis -M.Arnold for the death of Arthur Hugh Clough
Rugby Chapel-M.Arnold for his father Thomas Arnold (Head master)
In Memory of W.B. Yeats-W.H. Auden
The Regiment of Princes-Occleve wrote for Chaucer “Master Dear”
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard-Gray for Ancesters
Elegy on the dead cat - Gray
Elegy on mad dog – Goldsmith
Elegy on the death of Philip Sparrow (Killed by Gib, the cat) - Skeleton
O Captain! My Captain!, by Walt Whitman for the death of Abraham Lincoln
4. Mourners
Urania
subject matter of Keats poetry
Nature
Fellow poets mourn the death of Keats: Byron, Thomas Moore, Shelley,
and Leigh Hunt.
weep any longer
"made one with Nature.“
Chatterton, Sidney, and Lucan
soul of Keats glows like a star,
Beast
