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| | elegy. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
 | | Later taken up and developed in Roman poetry, it was widely used by Catullus, Ovid, and other Latin poets. |
 | | In English poetry, since the 16th cent., the term elegy designates a reflective poem of lamentation or regret, with no set metrical form, generally of melancholy tone, often on death. |
 | | Famous pastoral elegies are Miltons Lycidas, on Edward King; Shelleys Adonais, on John Keats; and Matthew Arnolds Thyrsis, on Arthur Hugh Clough. |
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