Elegy
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An elegy is a poem of serious reflection, and in English literature usually a lament for the dead. However, according to The Oxford Handbook of the Elegy, "for all of its pervasiveness... the 'elegy'
Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard, illustration by William Blake
Ovid
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Publius Ovidius Naso, known in English as Ovid, was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a younger contemporary of Virgil and Horace, with whom he is often ranked as one of the
Elegy
…Catullus's Carmen 101, on his dead brother, and elegies by Propertius on his dead mistress Cynthia and a matriarch of the prominent Cornelian family. Ovid wrote elegies bemoaning his exile, which he likened to a death. In English literature, the more modern and restricted meaning, of a lament for a departed…
Bust from the 2nd century AD, supposed "for no reason" to represent Ovid, Uffizi Gallery, Florence
A statue of Ovid by Ettore Ferrari is shown in the Piazza XX Settembre in Sulmona, Italy. It is a duplicate of an 1887 original found in Constanța, Romania.
Ovid Banished from Rome (1838), by J.M.W. Turner
A statue of Roman poet Ovid in Constanța is shown. In 1925, an identical replica was made in Sulmona, Italy.