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in their original texts
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art’ – Seamus Heaney
urgent and moving pieces' - Kit de Waal'As necessary as ever' - The Observer
The Penguin Book of Elegy Louis De Paor in their original texts'A tremendous sentimental education of a book a literary adventure chosen with a scholarly discernment mixed with a wild card flair fascinating and unignorable' Kate Kellaway, Observer (Poetry Book of the Month) Elegy 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