elegy originally denoted type poetic meter elegiac meter commonly describes poem mourning elegy may also reflect something seems author strange mysterious elegy reflection death sorrow generally something mysterious may classified form lyric poetry notable practitioners elegiac poetry included propertius jorge manrique jan kochanowski chidiock tichborne edmund spenser ben jonson john milton thomas gray charlotte smith william cullen bryant percy bysshe shelley johann wolfgang von goethe evgeny baratynsky alfred tennyson walt whitman antonio
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