{"product_id":"the-penguin-book-of-elegy-poems-of-memory-mourning-and-consolation-9780241269626","title":"The Penguin Book of Elegy: Poems of Memory, Mourning and Consolation","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe comprehensive guide to a deeply human tradition of memory, mourning, and consolation through poetry \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA Penguin Classic \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eElegy is among the world's oldest forms of literature. Born in Ancient Greece, practiced by the Romans, revitalized by the poets of the Renaissance, and continuing down to the present day, it speaks eloquently and affectingly of the experience of loss and the yearning for consolation. It gives shape and meaning to memories too painful to contemplate, and answers our desire to fix in words what would otherwise slip our grasp. In \u003ci\u003eThe Penguin Book of Elegy\u003c\/i\u003e, Andrew Motion and Stephen Regan trace the history of this tradition, from its Classical roots in the work of Theocritus, Virgil, and Ovid down to modern compositions exploring personal tragedy and collective grief by such celebrated voices of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries as Dylan Thomas, Elizabeth Bishop, Terrance Hayes and Alice Oswald. The only comprehensive anthology of its kind in the English language, \u003ci\u003eThe Penguin Book of Elegy\u003c\/i\u003e is a profound and moving compendium of the fundamentally human urges to remember and honor the dead, and to give comfort to those who survive them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eStephen Regan\u003c\/b\u003e's (Editor) books include \u003ci\u003eIrish Writing: An Anthology of Irish Literature in English 1789-1939 \u003c\/i\u003e(2004) and \u003ci\u003eThe Sonnet\u003c\/i\u003e (2019). He has taught at Ruskin College, Oxford; Royal Holloway, University of London; and Durham University, where he is Professor Emeritus. He is currently a Research Associate at the University of Melbourne. \u003cb\u003eAndrew Motion\u003c\/b\u003e's (Editor) most recent collection is \u003ci\u003eNew and Selected Poems 1977-2022\u003c\/i\u003e (2023). He was UK Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009, is co-founder of The Poetry Archive and Poetry by Heart, and since 2015 has lived in Baltimore, where he is Homewood Professor of the Arts at Johns Hopkins University.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51185896751378,"sku":"9780241269626","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_571e0dfb-9f5f-4a01-91fb-0348baa04811.jpg?v=1744592598","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-penguin-book-of-elegy-poems-of-memory-mourning-and-consolation-9780241269626","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}