Elegiac

Tell us how it compares to your two previous solo recordings, Elegiac Cycle and Live in Tokyo, both personally and musically.

Joseph Vella: Interview With Brad Mehldau on the Art of Solo Piano Joseph Vella 2011

Tell us how it compares to your two previous solo recordings, Elegiac Cycle and Live in Tokyo, both personally and musically.

Joseph Vella: Interview With Brad Mehldau on the Art of Solo Piano Joseph Vella 2011

(The poet Elytis fought on the Albanian front, which is the subject of his celebrated and ambitious poem, “Heroic and Elegiac Song for the Lost Second Lieutenant of the Albanian Campaign.”)

Ochi Day : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

Like Wordsworth and Coleridge, Smith's poetry combined a powerful assertion of self with a deep sense of nature, beautifully exemplified by Sonnet 4 of her Elegiac Sonnets, 'To the Moon':

Charlotte (Turner) Smith (1749-1806) 2008

In the year that saw the publication of the Elegiac Sonnets Smith followed her husband to a castle in Normandy, a retreat from the ongoing demands of his debtors.

Charlotte (Turner) Smith (1749-1806) 2008

And then there's this favourite which is so sticky and saccharine, Ms R can barely type the words: "Elegiac, life affirming..it will take your breath away..."

Archive 2008-06-01 Ms Robinson 2008

And then there's this favourite which is so sticky and saccharine, Ms R can barely type the words: "Elegiac, life affirming..it will take your breath away..."

Overratedly, adverbly, annoyingly, Ms Robinson 2008

The Spartans, though an unpoetical race, were nevertheless lovers of poetry; they had been stirred by the Elegiac strains of Tyrtaeus, they had crowded around Hippias to hear his recitals of Homer; but in this they resembled the citizens of the timocratic rather than of the ideal State.

The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

Waller had died 21 October, 1687, at the great age of eighty – one, and her Elegiac Ode to his Memory begins: —

A Memoir of Mrs. Behn 2002

"Verses," is a (conscious or unconscious) echo of Petrarch's sonnet 90, Erano i capei d'oro a l'aura sparsi, which also begins in that way; Charlotte Smith's learned annotations to her own Elegiac Sonnets and Mary Robinson's use of Petrarchan form and imagery in her sequence Sappho and Phaon had already shown how central to romantic-period poetry is this feminine revision of the Petrarchan diction, imagery, voice, and form.

Commentary on "Verses" by L.E.L. 2000