{"product_id":"9780241269602-penguin-book-of-elegy","title":"The Penguin Book of Elegy","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePoems of Memory, Mourning and Consolation. \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A tremendous sentimental education of a book . a literary adventure . chosen with a \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003escholarly discernment mixed with a wild-card flair . fascinating and unignorable' \u003c\/b\u003eKate Kellaway, \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e (Poetry Book of the Month)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'If you have any weakness at all for poetry, this book will draw you in, then devastate you'  \u003c\/b\u003eSusie Goldsbrough. \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElegy is among the world's oldest forms of literature. Born in Ancient Greece, practised 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \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, Linton Kwesi Johnson and Denise Riley.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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 honour the dead, and to give comfort to those who survive them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41055939461217,"sku":"9780241269602","price":40.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_28567895.jpg?v=1722702218","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780241269602-penguin-book-of-elegy","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}