elegiac

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In this longer and more structured form, what began as an intentional scattering of ashes becomes an elegiac letter home mediated by shipwreck.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2026

It is the first of the elegiac collection he dryly titled “Poems of 1912-13,” otherwise known as the Emma Poems and a sublime act of self-recrimination.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

Also among Mr. Stoppard’s most indelible achievements was “The Invention of Love,” his elegiac and beautifully compassionate play about the poet A.E.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025

Cushioned between the more experimental songs, however, were the real crowd-pleasers: An elegiac version of Lucky, a beautifully twisted No Surprises and a genuinely sublime version of Weird Fishes/Arpeggi.

From BBC • Nov. 21, 2025

And while Lefty stops to breathe it in, I’d like to take this opportunity to resuscitate—for purely elegiac reasons and only for a paragraph—that city which disappeared, once and for all, in 1922.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides