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  • Not only was this "lame and impotent conclusion" imitated by Spenser in his lovely elegy,

    Chaucer Adolphus William Ward 1880

  • What came to Hass, the former poet laureate of the United States, was a mournful elegy,

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • What came to Hass, the former poet laureate of the United States, was a mournful elegy,

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • What came to Hass, the former poet laureate of the United States, was a mournful elegy,

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • He also served as our composer-in-residence for two seasons and we recorded his evocative elegy,

    NewMusicBox 2009

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