ELEGY

stately } poetic monody. } Amongst the ancients the e. was not always funereal, often being patriotic or amatory, The cla ical form was an alternation of hexameter and pentameter verses, and famous early writers of thee. tus, Bion, Pro pert i us,Tibullus, and Ovid. The form has long been a favourite with Eng. poets—Spenser, Milton, Donne, eee Shelley, Tennyson, Arnold, and others.: